"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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"The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry but they cannot kill ignorance, illnesses, poverty or hunger."
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"When we are shown scenes of starving children in Africa, with a call for us to do something to help them, the underlying ideological message is something like: "Don't think, don't politicize, forget about the true causes of their poverty, just act, contribute money, so that you will not have to think!"
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"Poverty breeds a lot of things. When people are desperate and trying to survive, they do drastic things."
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"The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs."
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"Through periodic increases over the next three decades under Democratic and Republican administrations alike, the nation achieved one of the fundamental goals of a just society, which is that no one who works for a living should have to live in poverty."
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"Socialism needs to pull down wealth; liberalism seeks to raise up poverty. Socialism would destroy private interests, Liberalism would preserve [them] ... by reconciling them with public right. Socialism would kill enterprise; Liberalism would rescue enterprise from the trammels of privilege and preference. Socialism assails the preeminence of the individual; Liberalism seeks ... to build up a minimum standard for the mass. Socialism exalts the rule; Liberalism exalts the man. Socialism attacks capitalism; Liberalism attacks monopoly."
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"What hurts me most is poverty, and that's what led me to become a rebel."
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"Whether we live in poverty or prosperity, we can still live generously."
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"Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor."
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"I am now convinced that the simplest approach will prove to be the most effective -- the solution to poverty is to abolish it directly by a now widely discussed measure: the guaranteed income."
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"If our economic system is to survive, there has to be a better distribution of wealth ... we can't have a system where some people live in superfluous, inordinate wealth, while others live in abject deadening poverty."
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"They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?"
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"Charity only perpetuates poverty by taking the initiative away from the poor."
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"Where poverty ceases, avarice begins."
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"Even in poverty I lived like a king for I tell you that nobility is the thing that makes a king"
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