"Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth."
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"There is no Them. There are only facets of Us."
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"Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible."
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"Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn't it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?"
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"Poverty is not really as much of an obstacle to educational expansion as it's sometimes made out to be."
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"Poverty is restriction and as such, it is the greatest injustice you can perpetrate upon yourself."
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"Poverty is not a sin; it is a condition, a circumstance that allows God's work to be displayed."
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"Poverty anywhere is a danger to prosperity everywhere"
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"Poverty can lead to tyranny. Capitolism creates freedom. If the poor had a better image of the rich they could be just like them."
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"She lived almost fifty years of her life completely dedicated to the care of the poor and the marginalized. Astonishingly, for those nearly fifty years she identified completely with the poor she served by her own experience of being seemingly unwanted and unloved by God. In a mystical way — through this painful interior "darkness" — she tasted their greatest poverty of being "unwanted, unloved, and uncared for.""
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"Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That's where it will be."
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"We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet."
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"The longer I live the more I mistrust theatricality, the false glamour cast by performance, the more I know its poverty beside the truths we are salvaging from the splitting-open of our lives. -from "Transcendental Etude"
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"We all have the chance to create a world where extreme poverty is the exception rather than the rule."
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"Finally I got to the point where I said, I'd like to start a project where we can actually talk about race and poverty, not through the lens of a particular case, but much more broadly."
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"There is a solitude in poverty, but a solitude which restores to each thing its value."
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"As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. They have made private terms with the enemy, and sold their birthright for very bad pottage. They must also be extraordinarily stupid."
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"The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty."
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"The English are probably more capable than most peoples of making revolutionary change without bloodshed. In England, if anywhere,it would be possible to abolish poverty without destroying liberty."
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"Wealth and poverty; one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent."
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