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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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"Facing poverty is better than living in poverty and by facing poverty you can overcome it at one point."

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"Whether it is big or small, the size of a poor man's yard incessantly reminds him that he is poor."

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"Every one of us see many nightmares every day, not in our sleeps but with our very own eyes: The poverty! The most real and the most common nightmare of all times!"

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

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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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Amber Hurdle

"As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism."

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"Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious."

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"Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains."

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"I would like to solemnly reaffirm, that poverty is not a fatality."

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"Most people die, living their life paycheck to paycheck,trying to stretch out each dollar, as like a roll of toilet paper. Toiling each tissue, never quite wiping away all the shit from their asses, where the world always takes what little they flush, back into its deprived system, always hungry."

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"They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class."
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"I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie."
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"Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford."
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"If America don't come around, we're gonna' burn it down."
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"You see, the poverty program for the last five years have been buy-off programs."
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"The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty."
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"Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country."
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"See, justice is a joke in this country, and it stinks of its hypocricy."
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"We talking about revolution because that's the era that you're caught in."
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"In terms of the revolution, I believe that the revolution will be a revolution of dispossessed people in this country: that's the Mexican American, the Puerto Rican American, the American Indian, and black people."
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