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H. Rap Brown

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

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

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

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"There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread."

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"If your expenditure brings you poverty, then you may call yourself a poor but the world will call you a fool."

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"America has a unique type of poverty that looks like wealth."

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"Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation."

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"Home, home - a few small rooms, stiflingly over-inhabited by a man, by a periodically teeming woman, by rabble of boys and girls of all ages. No air, no space; an understerilized prison; darkness, disease and smells."

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Amber Hurdle

"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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Amber Hurdle

"They'll take everything, even your tears."

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"Hunger makes a thief of any man."

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"We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create."

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"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."
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"Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics."
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"An old African leader says about leadership, he says that leadership should never be shared; it should always remain in the hands of the dispossessed people. We will lead the revolution."
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"So black people all across this country are uniting. They must unite, and they must organize themselves."
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