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"When you have a spiritual foundation, you look at poverty differently then."
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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, for me, is synonymous with degradation."
"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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"And Americans realized that native people are still here, that they have a moral standing, a legal standing."
"In 1978, the tradition of running from village to village with a message was revived. that first run was from Davis to Los Angeles, a distance of 500 miles."
"To be selected was an honor, and in respect of the family member chosen to run, families held feasts and gave away prized beaver coats, quilled tobacco bags and buffalo hides."
"Since the beginning, Native Peoples lived a life of being in harmony with all that surrounds us."
"It also called upon traditional people in the Four Directions to strengthen the healing ceremonies and asked people to heed the warnings of Mother Earth."
"Even the people who come our way look upon us in amazement, that we run only for the healing of Mother Earth."
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