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Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is profoundly inconvenient.
SYDNEY SMITH, His Wit and Wisdom
A hungry man is not a free man.
ADLAI STEVENSON, speech, Sept. 6, 1952
Boredom is the keynote of poverty -- of all its indignities, it is perhaps the hardest of all to live with -- for where there is no money there is no change of any kind.
Poverty is a noose that strangles humility and breeds disrespect for God and man.
With poverty everything becomes frightful.
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
In Zen, poverty is voluntary, and considered not really as poverty so much as simplicity, freedom, unclutteredness.
It is not poverty so much as pretence, that harasses a ruined man--the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse.
WASHINGTON IRVING, "The Wife," The Sketch Book
Give me, Lord, neither poverty nor riches.
WILLIAM COBBETT, Political Register, Dec. 22, 1832
The fact is that this generation -- yours, my generation ... we're the first generation that can look at poverty and disease, look across the ocean to Africa and say with a straight face, we can be the first to end this sort of stupid extreme poverty, where in the world of plenty, a child can die for lack of food in it's belly.
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