#poverty

He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty. ↗

— David Hume

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Thus the castle of each feudal chieftain became a school of chivalry, into which any noble youth, whose parents were from poverty unable to educate him to the art of war, was readily received. ↗

— Horatio Alger

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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise. ↗

— Bertolt Brecht

#poverty #sad #well #wise #you

The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty. ↗

— H. Rap Brown

#eliminate #poverty #program

While Haiti has recently celebrated more than 200 years of independence from French colonial rule, the citizens of the island remain vulnerable to poverty, poor health, and political chaos. ↗

— Eliot Engel

#chaos #citizens #colonial #french #haiti

I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life. ↗

— Anatole France

#fate #gifts #having #i #life

Before this learning experience, I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help people out of poverty, the political world was essentially divided into two camps: conservatives who opposed these for a variety of reasons, and liberals who supported them. ↗

— Barney Frank

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When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually. ↗

— Barney Frank

#combat #community #community action #early #early sixties

The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life. ↗

— Al Franken

#christian #christian right #culture #extreme #extreme poverty