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H. Rap Brown

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

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

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"For a man who is in poverty, doomsday is already there!"

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"There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread."

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"Nothing is interesting other than deleting your name from the book of poverty and misery."

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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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"If your expenditure brings you poverty, then you may call yourself a poor but the world will call you a fool."

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"America has a unique type of poverty that looks like wealth."

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"Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation."

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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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"Say this city has ten million souls,Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes:Yet there's no place for us, my dear, yet there's no place for us."

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"If you are financially poor, it is because you have not converted your time into any product."

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"But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws in this country. We are neither morally nor legally confined to those laws. Those laws that keep them up, keep us down."
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"Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country."
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