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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."

"I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty."

"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."

"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."

"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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"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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