Mathieu Kerekou Quotations

Defeat would not be a shame, ... This is a competition.

It is a great pleasure to live with positive hope that the most deprived will gain access into the Kingdom of God.

This sharp increase in the number of the poor worsens our concern and anxieties on the real nature of the New World Order.

Poverty should not be viewed by us as a humiliation and even less so as a position of honour or a fatality.

I would like to solemnly reaffirm, that poverty is not a fatality.

Whether we are poor among the poorest, or less poor among the wealthier, let us stand proud and noteworthy, united and strong, comforted by our belonging to the Community of the Free Nations of our Planet.