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“Poverty is a dish best served with Potato Soup.”
― Stanley Victor Paskavich

“As they were walking, a beggar came up, holding his hand out and crying, "Baksheesh! Baksheesh!"
Mike kept on going but Mitchell stopped. Digging into his pocket, he pulled out twenty paise and placed it in the beggar's dirty hand.
Mike said, "I used to give to beggars when I first came here. But then I realized, it's hopeless. It never stops."
"Jesus said you should give to whoever asks you," Mitchell said.
"Yeah, well," Mike said, "obviously Jesus was never in Calcutta.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot

“Welcome to Hartford. The poorest city in the wealthiest state in the richest country on earth.”
― Susan Eaton, The Children in Room E4: American Education on Trial

“We fought a war on poverty, and poverty won”
― Ronald Reagan