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"We started the AIDS virus. We are only able to maintain our level of living by making sure that Third World people live in grinding poverty."

Jeremiah Wright, American Clergyman

People, Living, Poverty, World

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"We started the AIDS virus. We are only able to maintain our level of living by making sure that Third World people live in grinding poverty."

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