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

"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."

"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."
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"We happen to be the vanguard of that revolutionary struggle because we are the most dispossessed."

"Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized."

"The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other."

"There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant."

"But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws in this country. We are neither morally nor legally confined to those laws. Those laws that keep them up, keep us down."

"So black people all across this country are uniting. They must unite, and they must organize themselves."
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