"Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery."
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"The best anti-poverty program is a world-class education."
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"The war against hunger is truly mankind's war of liberation."
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"No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach."
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"Poverty is just a state of mind."
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"It is the poverty connected with our species which subordinates one man to another. It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence."
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"To a man with an empty stomach food is God"
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"We have to get out of this mindset that the rich will do the business and the poor will have the charity."
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"Poverty, first of all was never a misfortune for me; it was radiant with sunlight.. I owe it to my family, first of all, who lacked everything and who envied practically nothing."
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"Poverty is unnecessary."
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"You have to be interested in inequality. The issue of inequality and that of poverty are not separable."
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"Love is the epiphany of God in our poverty."
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"I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves."
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"Fasting will break poverty from your life."
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"If we are to make poverty history, we must have the active participation of States, civil society and the private sector, as well as individual volunteers."
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"Don't let complexity stop you. Be activists. Take on the big inequities. It will be one of the great experiences of your lives."
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"He is now rising from affluence to poverty."
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"Poverty makes people sub-human Excess of wealth makes people inhuman"
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"Poverty is not what's in your pocket - its what you have in your head."
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"Helping convene global stakeholders to establish a set of measurable, actionable and consensus-built goals focused on extreme poverty is invaluable."
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