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#1

“There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: bread, food, god, humanity, hunger, poverty, religion

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#2

“We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.”
― Immanuel Kant

tags: contentment, poverty, riches

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#3

“Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.”
― Aristotle

tags: crime, poverty, revolution, society

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#4

“I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.”
― Eugene Debs

tags: aristocracy, capitalism, feudalism, inequality, justice, labor, poverty, wealth

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#5

“There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

tags: humanity, misery, poverty

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#6

“Poverty is the worst form of violence.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: poverty, violence

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#7

“If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.”
― Charles Darwin, Voyage of the Beagle

tags: injustice, poverty, social-institutions, society

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#8

“Every life deserves a certain amount of dignity, no matter how poor or damaged the shell that carries it.”
― Rick Bragg, All Over But the Shoutin'

tags: compassion, dignity, poverty

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#9

“An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: humor, hunger, poverty

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#10

“A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.”
― Herman Melville

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#11

“Once poverty is gone, we'll need to build museums to display its horrors to future generations. They'll wonder why poverty continued so long in human society - how a few people could live in luxury while billions dwelt in misery, deprivation and despair.”
― Muhammad Yunus, Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism

tags: business, charity, micro-credit, poor, poverty, social-business

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#12

“Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.”
― Mother Teresa

tags: inspirational, poverty

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#13

“History is written by the rich, and so the poor get blamed for everything.”
― Jeffrey Sachs

tags: class, condition, human, maldistribution, poor, poverty, rich, wealth

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#14

“An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.”
― Plutarch

tags: political-philosophy, poverty, republic

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#15

“The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel... its poverty by how little.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Invincible

tags: poverty, soul, wealth

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#16

“The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: poverty

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#17

“We're not stupid! We're just poor! And we have a right to insist on this distinction”
― Orhan Pamuk, Snow

tags: misfortune, poverty, stupidity

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#18

“It is a common condition of being poor... you are always afraid that the good things in your life are temporary, that someone can take them away, because you have no power beyond your own brute strength to stop them.”
― Rick Bragg

tags: poverty, success

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