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"Poverty is restriction and as such, it is the greatest injustice you can perpetrate upon yourself."
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"If you are financially poor, it is because you have not converted your time into any product."

"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."

"Some people ate less food less often when they each had a home than they now do as hobos."

"Blacks are about seven times more likely to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty than whites."

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

"Juice is a poor man's dessert."

"And I think that after nearly 85 years upon this planet that I have a right after working so hard at showing the desolation and the poverty, to show something beautiful for somebody as well."

"At the current $5.15 an hour, the federal minimum wage has become a poverty wage. A full-time worker with one child lives below the official poverty line."
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"The rich get richer. Not only because they have surpluses with which to invest, but because of the overriding emotional release they experience from having wealth."

"Poverty is restriction and as such, it is the greatest injustice you can perpetrate upon yourself."
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