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Poverty Quotes
"Poverty is restriction and as such, it is the greatest injustice you can perpetrate upon yourself."
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"Poverty has deceived many of us into believing that some people who are in that state love the food, clothes, places, and people that they do not even like. The same can be said about wealth."
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"You see, the poverty program for the last five years have been buy-off programs."
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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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"Alleviating poverty would be the Bank's overarching objective."
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"If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, 'What are we going to do?' but if people die of hunger, have nothing to eat or suffer from poor health, that's nothing."
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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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"The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies."
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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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"Poverty is a dish best served with Potato Soup."
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"For a man who is in poverty, doomsday is already there!"
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"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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"Whether it is big or small, the size of a poor man's yard incessantly reminds him that he is poor."
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"Clothes are a homeless man's home."
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"Some people ate less food less often when they each had a home than they now do as hobos."
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"I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food."
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"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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"Most poor people do not really aspire to end poverty, they merely aspire to escape it."
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"Juice is a poor man's dessert."
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"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."
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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."
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"Poverty does not always prevent a rich person from dating someone who is poor, unless the man is the one who is poor."
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"If you are financially poor, it is because you have not converted your time into any product."
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"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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"How can we embrace poverty as a way to God when everyone around us wants to become rich? Poverty has many forms. We have to ask ourselves: 'What is my poverty?' Is it lack of money, lack of emotional stability, lack of a loving partner, lack of security, lack of safety, lack of self-confidence? Each human being has a place of poverty. That's the place where God wants to dwell! 'How blessed are the poor,' Jesus says (Matthew 5:3). This means that our blessing is hidden in our poverty.We are so inclined to cover up our poverty and ignore it that we often miss the opportunity to discover God, who dwells in it. Let's dare to see our poverty as the land where our treasure is hidden."
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"I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty."
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"We need to let ourselves be evangelized by the poor. They have much to teach us."
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