"I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves."

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"I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves."

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"America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That's the nature of America, I think."

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"What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place."

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"And there's a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents - I mean, it's gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience."

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"And Warner Bros. seems to be pretty much into re-releasing all of their catalog. So there's the Warner Bros. stuff and the stuff that we have control over, we're gradually re-releasing it. Some stuff we don't have control over."

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"But hey, when you live in Watts, you need a little smack to get by, you know what I mean? You need something soft and comfortable in your life, 'cause you're not going to get it from what's around you. And society isn't going to give it to you."

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Dennis Banks, American Educator

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"The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich."

John Berger, English Artist

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"Dr. Rice went well beyond offering a helping hand - she went so far as to shed tears and share hugs with those who, in a matter of just a few hours, had lost everything to the rising floodwaters."

Jo Bonner, American Politician

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"There's no unemployment in squatter cities. Everyone works. One-sixth of humanity is there. It's soon going to be more than that."

Stewart Brand, American Author

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"Poverty makes you sad as well as wise."

Bertolt Brecht, German Poet

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Bertolt Brecht, German Poet

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"You see, the poverty program for the last five years have been buy-off programs."

H. Rap Brown, American Activist

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

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"Hunger makes a thief of any man."

Pearl S. Buck, American Novelist

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