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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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"Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation."
"Poverty does not always prevent a rich person from dating someone who is poor, unless the man is the one who is poor."
"Whether it is big or small, the size of a poor man's yard incessantly reminds him that he is poor."
"Poverty has deceived many of us into believing that some people who are in that state love the food, clothes, places, and people that they do not even like. The same can be said about wealth."
"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!"
"The streets are a poor kid's PlayStation."
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"Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will."
"The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood."
"All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem."
"Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart."
"It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society."
"If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream."
"The Cross is the eternal expression of the length to which God will go to in order to restore broken community."
"True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar, it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring."
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