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"Poverty is the frontier we have to be able to cross."

Poverty,

"There is no reason to have problems between country and country, between government and government, when there is a separation of powers."

Government, Country, Problems, Reason

"It's important to see how we can advance in healing wounds."

Healing, Wounds

"We have obligations towards the innocent, the dead, towards the living, towards our children and their children."

Family, Children, Living

"Clearly it is better that, when someone is wanted by the international police, and this person travels, and a country knows about it, that country reports the fact."

Nation, Country, Fact, Police

"Let's not interfere with justice... Let's let justice speak."

Justice,

"We Chileans have to be able to understand that in a democracy institutions must function freely and with sovereignty."

Democracy,

"My obligation as president, and what I promise the country, is that the courts will be able to do their job free of all pressure."

Nation, Country, Job, Obligation, President

"This is not the Chile we want to build."

Want,

Exlpore more Poverty quotes

"The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

Poverty, Argument, Crime, Poor

"Dr. Rice went well beyond offering a helping hand - she went so far as to shed tears and share hugs with those who, in a matter of just a few hours, had lost everything to the rising floodwaters."

Jo Bonner, American Politician

Poverty, Hugs, Tears

"There's no unemployment in squatter cities. Everyone works. One-sixth of humanity is there. It's soon going to be more than that."

Stewart Brand, American Author

Poverty, Cities, Humanity, Unemployment

"You see, the poverty program for the last five years have been buy-off programs."

H. Rap Brown, American Activist

Poverty, Years

"The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty."

H. Rap Brown, American Activist

Poverty,

"As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares."

Daniel Defoe, English Journalist

Poverty, Covetousness, Evil

"Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason."

Henry Fielding, English Novelist

Poverty, Reason, Will

"When I was a kid in Houston, we were so poor we couldn't afford the last 2 letters, so we called ourselves po'."

George Foreman, American Athlete

Poverty, Houston, Letters, Poor

"That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous."

George Gissing, British Novelist

Poverty, Right

"It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end."

Washington Irving, American Writer

Poverty, End, Man, Mind