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"Poverty is the frontier we have to be able to cross."
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"Blacks are about seven times more likely to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty than whites."

"Juice is a poor man's dessert."

"And I think that after nearly 85 years upon this planet that I have a right after working so hard at showing the desolation and the poverty, to show something beautiful for somebody as well."

"At the current $5.15 an hour, the federal minimum wage has become a poverty wage. A full-time worker with one child lives below the official poverty line."

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

"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."

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

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

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