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"You need massive recruitment to tell the poorest of the poor what is possible."
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"To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects."
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"How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?"
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"Poor but happy is not a phrase invented by a poor person."
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"When the idle poor become the idle rich, you'll never know just who is who, or which is which."
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"We have no right to luxuries while the poor want bread."
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"Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!"
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"Some have too much, yet still do crave; I little have, and seek no more. They are but poor, though much they have, And I am rich with little store."
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"Its easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor."
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"The poor are the only consistent altruists; they sell all they have and give it to the rich."
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"When you're really poor, everything you see is something you can't have."
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"I am opposed to the use of public funds for private education."
Education
"What I tell these young people is, the world is not as dangerous as the older generation would like you to believe. Anyone I know who has ever taken a risk and lost a job has ended up getting a better one two years later."
People
"So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge that our victories are contaminated because the game has been rigged to our advantage."
Knowledge
"If you grow up in the South Bronx today or in south-central Los Angeles or Pittsburgh or Philadelphia, you quickly come to understand that you have been set apart and that there's no will in this society to bring you back into the mainstream."
Society
"An awful lot of people come to college with this strange idea that there's no longer segregation in America's schools, that our schools are basically equal; neither of these things is true."
People
"The primary victims of Katrina, those who were given the least help by the government, those rescued last or not at all, were overwhelmingly people of color largely hidden from the mainstream of society."
Society
"The greatest difference between now and 1964, when I began teaching, is that public policy has pretty much eradicated the dream of Martin Luther King."
Policy
"I think a lot of people don't have any idea of how deeply segregated our schools have become all over again. Most textbooks are not honest in what they teach our high school students."
People
"Children are not simply commodities to be herded into line and trained for the jobs that white people who live in segregated neighborhoods have available."
People
"But for the children of the poorest people we're stripping the curriculum, removing the arts and music, and drilling the children into useful labor. We're not valuing a child for the time in which she actually is a child."
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