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"The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty."
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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."
"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."
"Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation."
"Whether it is big or small, the size of a poor man's yard incessantly reminds him that he is poor."
"Poverty does not always prevent a rich person from dating someone who is poor, unless the man is the one who is poor."
"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."
"Poverty is a dish best served with Potato Soup."
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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."
"We happen to be the vanguard of that revolutionary struggle because we are the most dispossessed."
"One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty."
"The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other."
"Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country."
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