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"Loneliness is the most terrible poverty."
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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."

"No matter what they say in the conferences and symposiums about poverty and hunger in the world. At the end, they are the first one forgetting us."

"Poverty does not always prevent a rich person from dating someone who is poor, unless the man is the one who is poor."

"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."

"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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"Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing."

"In the silence of the heart God speaks. If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you. Then you will know that you are nothing. It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself. Souls of prayer are souls of great silence."

"Prayer makes your heart bigger, until it is capable of containing the gift of God himself. Prayer begets faith, faith begets love, and love begets service on behalf of the poor."

"If you are joyful, do not worry about lukewarmness. Joy will shine in your eyes and in your look, in your conversation and in your countenance. You will not be able to hide it because joy overflows."

"I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness."

"Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love but to use violence to get what they want."
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