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“Theology alone doesn't convine anyone.Only those words which are pregnant with action, theology that is born of suffering, of struggles, of the poor--this theology is a testimony. This theology lea...”
“If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.”
“Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.”
“Poverty is the worst form of violence.”
“Close your eyes, Maxon."What?""Close your eyes.Somewhere in this palace, there is a woman who will be your wife. This girl? imagine that she depends on you. She needs you to cherish her and make he...”
“The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.”
“The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. ...”
“And St. Francis added: "My dear and beloved Brother, the treasure of blessed poverty is so very precious and divine that we are not worthy to possess it in our vile bodies. For poverty is that heav...”
“To seek "causes" of poverty in this way is to enter an intellectual dead end because poverty has no causes. Only prosperity has causes.”
“It is a good thing to know what it is to be poor, and a better thing if you can do it in company.”
“Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.”
“Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That's where it will be.”
“Poverty made a sound like a wet cough in the shadows of the room.”
“People who don't have much get ugly about giving up the little they have left.”
“When I get down to my last dime I'll just walk over to skid row.""There are some real weirdos down there.""They're everywhere.”
“In war," answered the weaver, "the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich make slaves of the poor. We must work to live, and they give us such mean wages that we die. We toil for the...”
“If Hemingway is to believed, poverty is an invaluable school for a writer. Poverty makes a man clear-sighted. And so on. It's interesting that Hemingway realized this only when he became rich.”
“Some of the best people that ever lived have been as destitute as I am; and if you are a Christian, you ought not to consider poverty a crime.”
“Extreme poverty is not only a condition of unsatisfied material needs. It is often accompanied by a degrading state of powerlessness. ”
“They [Harvard academia] liked the poor, but didn't like the smell of the poor.”
