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Mokokoma Mokhonoana

"Most poor people do not really aspire to end poverty, they merely aspire to escape it."

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"Most poor people do not really aspire to end poverty, they merely aspire to escape it."

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"No matter what they say in the conferences and symposiums about poverty and hunger in the world. At the end, they are the first one forgetting us."

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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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"Poverty does not always prevent a rich person from dating someone who is poor, unless the man is the one who is poor."

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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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"If you are poor and go without food and clothes, don't hope for wealth in paradise, you are already forsaken."

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"In the treatment of poverty nationally, one fact stands out: there are twice as many white poor as Negro poor in the United States. Therefore I will not dwell on the experiences of poverty that derive from racial discrimination, but will discuss the poverty that affects white and Negro alike."

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