Fidel Castro
Politician, Revolutionary
"Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty."
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Amartya Sen
Economist, Philosopher
"Poverty is not just a lack of money; it is not having the capability to realize one's full potential as a human being"
John F. Kennedy
Politician
"This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor."
Mother Angelica
Nun, Television Personality
"It's your obligation to speak the truth, and everyone can either take it or leave it. But truth must be in us. We live in such a poverty of truth today."
Karl Marx
Philosopher, Economist
"The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope."
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"Being in the neighborhood and the poverty stricken environment that I grew up in, I took a detour. I gravitated towards some of the individuals that did a lot of the wrong things with the right intentions."
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"The opposite of poverty is not wealth. I don't believe that. I actually think, in too many places, the opposite of poverty is justice."
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"We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without."
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"God does not create poverty; we do, because we do not share."
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"Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity."
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"The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor."
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"Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious."
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"There is nothing new about poverty. What is new, however, is that we have the resources to get rid of it."
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"Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires."
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"Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty"
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"A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention."
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"A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread."
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"The Curse of poverty has no justification in our age...The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty."
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"If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth."
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"Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society."
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"Every literate woman is a victory over poverty"
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"In the future the question will not be, "Are people credit-worthy", but rather, "Are banks people-worthy?""
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"There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil."
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"We fought a war on poverty, and poverty won"
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"He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free."
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