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“But they had learned an important lesson about how defeating poverty is more difficult than it seems at first.”
“Our contemporary poverty is as transparent as glass and as invisible as the air. Our poverty is kilometer-long lines, the constant elbowing, spiteful officials, trains late without reason, the wate...”
“To cause pain was a disease. As a child I imagined tiny, almost invisible animals that arrived in the neighborhood at night, they came from the ponds, from the abandoned train cars beyond the emban...”
“We failed to learn from the stories that warned us that if we create environments that perpetuate poverty, that force the people in them to beg and steal, the we're equally to blame for many of the...”
“I feel both isolated from poverty I do not know what my neighbors need or if they need anything and surrounded by it because now we know all about the hunger and death in the world, and everyone ...”
“We extend our best wishes to you, inhabitants of another world.After reading the following message, you should have a basic understanding of civilization on Earth. By dint of long toil and creativi...”
“You did not die when you were drawing public assistance money, but you certainly did not remain alive.”
“I see seven people in one room and one pregnant and people fucking anyway because people so poor that they cant even afford shame and I wait”
“Every morning, when people are getting up in the tent, the babies are crying, people are pushing each other at the taps outside and some children are already pulling the crusts of porridge off the ...”
“Poverty in a big city is more humiliating and deadening to all the joys of life than it can possibly be elsewhere.”
“My mother often said, as long as a person is happy at work, then poverty is nothing to be ashamed of.”
“If our family was poor, of what did our poverty consist? If our clothes were torn the torn places only let in the sun and wind. In the winter we had no overcoats, but that only meant that we ran ra...”
“Poverty said the same thing, century after century, but in different kinds of sentences.”
“By helping the poor, we must be able to remove their poverty. By extending help to one here and one there in the form of providing food will not remove poverty.”
“During times of need, it was always the people with the least to give who ended up sacrificing the most.”
“It takes nothing to stay in poverty, but everything to break free from it.”
“Poverty advances discrimination and corruption because society classifies the rich and poor. Poverty augments anger, selfishness, hatred and envy among the people.Poverty entwined with desperation ...”
“They are les misrables - the outcasts, the underdogs. And who is to blame? Is it not the most fallen who have most need of charity?”
“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!”
“Amidst the crowd, tumbling like a stone, although lying on the roads, Im but a life.”
