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Poverty Quotes
"For a man who is in poverty, doomsday is already there!"
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"We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create."
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"Poverty is restriction and as such, it is the greatest injustice you can perpetrate upon yourself."
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"Life enslaves the poor by giving them problems that money can resolve, or, dissolve."
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"I have an old hat which is not worth three francs, I have a coat which lacks buttons in front, my shirt is all ragged, my elbows are torn, my boots let in the water; for the last six weeks I have not thought about it, and I have not told you about it. You only see me at night, and you give me your love; if you were to see me in the daytime, you would give me a sou!"
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"I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty."
"Whether it is big or small, the size of a poor man's yard incessantly reminds him that he is poor."
"Juice is a poor man's dessert."
"Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation."
"Poverty is a dish best served with Potato Soup."
"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."
"Poverty does not always prevent a rich person from dating someone who is poor, unless the man is the one who is poor."
"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."
"Blacks are about seven times more likely to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty than whites."
"Some people ate less food less often when they each had a home than they now do as hobos."
"Most people die, living their life paycheck to paycheck,trying to stretch out each dollar, as like a roll of toilet paper. Toiling each tissue, never quite wiping away all the shit from their asses, where the world always takes what little they flush, back into its deprived system, always hungry."
"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."
"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."
"If you are financially poor, it is because you have not converted your time into any product."
"Most poor people do not really aspire to end poverty, they merely aspire to escape it."
"The streets are a poor kid's PlayStation."
"Every one of us see many nightmares every day, not in our sleeps but with our very own eyes: The poverty! The most real and the most common nightmare of all times!"
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