#poverty

There is something about poverty that smells like death. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

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Extreme poverty threatens people's right to life itself and makes impossible the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms essential to a humane way of life. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

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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 is the schoolmaster of character. ↗

— Antiphanes

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If the apostles reminded even Paul himself to remember the poor (Galatians 2:10), then surely the rest of us need such a reminder. ↗

— Russell Moore

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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise. ↗

— Bertolt Brecht

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Poverty affects people of all races. ↗

— Bill Bennett

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The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty. ↗

— H. Rap Brown

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You see, the poverty program for the last five years have been buy-off programs. ↗

— H. Rap Brown

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It is unacceptable that someone can work full time - and work hard - and not be able to lift themselves out of poverty. ↗

— Sherrod Brown

#full #hard #lift #out #poverty