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Poverty Quotes
"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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"Poverty, like obesity, has the tendency to add at least ten years to the appearance of its victims, especially those who are over the age of twenty."
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"Poverty is restriction and as such, it is the greatest injustice you can perpetrate upon yourself."
11
"Alleviating poverty would be the Bank's overarching objective."
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"The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies."
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"Those that think banks and governments are making them poor haven't seen the whole picture. Poverty is the act of trusting their system."
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"For a man who is in poverty, doomsday is already there!"
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"Most poor people do not really aspire to end poverty, they merely aspire to escape it."
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"Poverty is a dish best served with Potato Soup."
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"Clothes are a homeless man's home."
5
"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."
5
"Whether it is big or small, the size of a poor man's yard incessantly reminds him that he is poor."
4
"Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation."
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"It is in the best interest of the rich to preserve poverty."
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"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."
3
"Poverty does not always prevent a rich person from dating someone who is poor, unless the man is the one who is poor."
3
"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."
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"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."
3
"If you are financially poor, it is because you have not converted your time into any product."
3
"I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty."
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"Juice is a poor man's dessert."
2
"Some people ate less food less often when they each had a home than they now do as hobos."
2
"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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"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."
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"And except on a certain kind of winter evening-six-thirty in the Seventies, say, already dark and bitter with a wind off the river, when I would be walking very fast toward a bus and would look in the bright windows of brownstones and see cooks working in clean kitchens and and imagine women lighting candles on the floor above and beautiful children being bathed on the floor above that-except on nights like those, I never felt poor; I had the feeling that if I needed money I could always get it."
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