"While poverty persists, there is no true freedom."
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"It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable."
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"Wealth is a great sin in the eyes of God. Poverty is a great sin in the eyes of man."
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"Poverty ... It is life near the bone, where it is sweetest."
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"There is nothing perfectly secure but poverty."
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"Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth."
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"No, I have no desire for riches. Honest poverty and a conscience, torpid through virtuous inaction, are more to me than corner lots and praise."
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"Self-preservation has a tendency to lead to poverty."
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"As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism."
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"I founded Grameen Bank to provide loans to those considered traditionally unbankable. Grameen Bank works with the poorest and often illiterate, providing uncollateralized micro-loans for tiny business enterprises by which they can lift themselves and their families out of poverty."
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"So i say, change the base! If you change the base, anybody will be as tall as anybody else! My belief is poverty is not caused by poor ppl. Poverty is caused by the system. Poverty is caused by the policies that we pursue."
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"Credit is a human right that should be treated as a human right. If credit can be accepted as a human right, then all other human rights will be easier to establish."
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"For avarice begins where poverty ends."
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"It is but a short step from hunger to starvation, from disease to death."
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"I write to escape ... to escape poverty."
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"Poverty has its duties as well as its rights."
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"The dangerous time when mechanical voices, radios, telephones, take the place of human intimacies, and the concept of being in touch with millions brings a greater and greater poverty in intimacy and human vision."
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"Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty."
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"The poor are only they who feel poor."
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"Wealth and poverty are seen for what they are. It begins to be seen that the poor are only they who feel poor, and poverty consists in feeling poor. The rich, as we reckon them, and among them the very rich, in a true scale would be found very indigent and ragged."
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