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

"It is in the best interest of the rich to preserve poverty."

"Some people ate less food less often when they each had a home than they now do as hobos."

"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!"

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

"Clothes are a homeless man's home."

"Juice is a poor man's dessert."

"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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"Whether we are poor among the poorest, or less poor among the wealthier, let us stand proud and noteworthy, united and strong, comforted by our belonging to the Community of the Free Nations of our Planet."

"Poverty should not be viewed by us as a humiliation and even less so as a position of honour or a fatality."
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