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"As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism."
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"America has a unique type of poverty that looks like wealth."
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"Using money in one's attempt to put an end to poverty is like using a border in one's attempt to put an end to xenophobia."
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"It is in the best interest of the rich to preserve poverty."
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"The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor."
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"Some people ate less food less often when they each had a home than they now do as hobos."
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"It is as difficult for most poor people to truly believe that they could someday escape poverty as it is for most wealthy people to truly believe that their wealth could someday escape them."
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"Misery and poverty of a nation does not depend on how fertile their land is but the fertility of their thoughts."
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"Most people die, living their life paycheck to paycheck,trying to stretch out each dollar, as like a roll of toilet paper. Toiling each tissue, never quite wiping away all the shit from their asses, where the world always takes what little they flush, back into its deprived system, always hungry."
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"Every one of us see many nightmares every day, not in our sleeps but with our very own eyes: The poverty! The most real and the most common nightmare of all times!"
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"For a man who is in poverty, doomsday is already there!"
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"A parent being called to the school because their child had misbehaved was as serious as a parent being called to the police station because their child had robbed a bank."
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"The remoteness of my parents from the schools, so unfashionable today, was often painful for me, but I learned early to deal with an outside and sometimes hard world."
Parents
"They wanted me to play more sports because they were acutely sensitive to their children being one hundred percent American, and they believed that all Americans played sports and loved sports."
Sports
"About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia."
Children
"I learned quickly, as I tell my graduate students now, there are no answers in the back of the book when the equipment doesn't work or the measurements look strange."
Work
"I was also interested in chemistry, but my parents were not willing to buy me a chemistry set."
Parents
"My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants."
Parents
"Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books."
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"I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel."
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"My parents were determined to move into the middle class."
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