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WATCH out for your surroundings, UPGRADE your mindset and keep FOCUS.

—Surgeo Bell

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History will judge societies and governments — and their institutions — not by how big they are or how well they serve the rich and the powerful, but by how effectively they respond to the...

—César Chávez

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Never Expect Loyalty From A Person That Can’t Give You Honesty.

—Surgeo Bell

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A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country.

—Ali ibn Abi Talib

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With all the other -isms that we deal with, that sort of nameless -ism that we have in too many of our hearts against the poor in this country is what wounds us most broadly.

—Benjamin Todd Jealous

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Mtu anayesema pesa haijampa furaha hana nia ya kusaidia watu.

—Enock Maregesi

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For me, TV and broke go together. Not as in, The TV is broken, but more of noticing that most people who watch too much TV are broke.

—Jarod Kintz

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There are many different ways to be poor in the world but increasingly there seems to be one single way to be rich.

—Chimamanda Ngozi

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Naten s’kisha gjume, me mbyste pendimi, kot thone qe pendimi te lehteson.

—Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor — poor in happiness, poor in all that makes life worth living.

—Herbert N

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We cannot fight against the poverty and hunger in the world; when our stomachs are full of delicious food; the fighters must feel the poverty not imagine it.

—M.F. Moonzajer

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The members of the functional and socially mobilized under class must, in some very real way, be seen as the architects of their own fate. If not, they could be, however marginally, on the conscience...

—John Kenneth Galbraith

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Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.

—Khaled Hosseini

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By Rachel Corrie, aged 10 — 1990I’m here for other children.I’m here because I care.I’m here because children everywhere are suffering and because forty thousand people die each day from hunger.I’m here because those people...

—Rachel Corrie

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An afro is a poor man’s haircut.

—Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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It’s not hard to marginalize people when they’ve already done it to themselves.

—Seanan McGuire

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Jesus never says to the poor: ‘come find the church’, but he says to those of us in the church: ‘go into the world and find the poor, hungry, homeless, imprisoned.

—Tony Campolo

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Making the best of things is… a damn poor way of dealing with them. My whole life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand.

—Rose Wilder

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Am I right in suggesting that ordinary life is a mean between these extremes, that the noble man devotes his material wealth to lofty ends, the advancement of science, or art, or some such true...

—Aleister Crowley

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The tax collector must love poor people, he’s creating so many of them.

—Bill Vaughan

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Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters.

—Criss Jami

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The irony of life emerges when two categories of men give advices regarding contempt for wordly goods. One, the rich, who do not know at first hand, what poverty is and another, the poor, who...

—Elmar Hussein

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Poor speakers create an artificial divide between themselves and the audience. They feel they need to do this in order to establish their own credibility.

—James Altucher

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Standing around making ten dollars an hour—that’s what they pay me the big bucks for.

—Jarod Kintz

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If I was feeling depressed or frustrated about my lot in life, all I had to do was tap the Player One button, and my worries would instantly slip away as my mind focused itself...

—Ernest Cline

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A poor man is not disposed to quick and high resentment when he is among the rich: he is apt to yield to others, for he knows others are above him: he is not stiff...

—Jonathan Edwards

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Even today we don’t pay serious attention to the issue of poverty, because the powerful remain relatively untouched by it. Most people distance themselves from the issue by saying that if the poor worked harder,...

—Muhammad Yunus

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If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.[Inaugural Address, January 20 1961]

—John F. Kennedy

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Life humbles the rich by giving them problems that money can’t resolve, or, dissolve. Life enslaves the poor by giving them problems that money can resolve, or, dissolve.

—Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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I am very poor – for a know nothing, understand nothing. It is not a calamitous condition until it is realized.

—Rafael Sabatini

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Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.

—Theodor Adorno

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It takes a real man to see the difference between a diamond and a rhinestone.Can’t be mad when someone else takes the diamond, that you treated like a rhinestone

—Surgeo Bell

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Why are…poor people more ready to share their goods than rich people? The answer is easy: The poor have little to lose; the rich have more to lose and they are more attached to their...

—Piero Gheddo

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The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottomless. They are insatiable. They are always parched and always bitter. They are everyone’s concern and...

—Betty Davis

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The prosperity of humanity is in utter disparity with its clarity largely seen in wider poverty.

—Anuj Somany

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It’s scented! Your wedding invitations are scented?””It’s meant to be lavender.””No, Dex – it’s money. It smells of money.

—David Nicholls

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This is the basis for the most important critique of microfinance. The poor are not entrepreneurs. The idea that more than a few will turn tiny loans into a viable business is simply unrealistic.

—Ian Smillie

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Learning about Poverty’. ‘Two young American Jesuits showed up at the Jesuit headquarters in Rome. Father Arrupe asked what assignment had brought them there. They explained that they were on their way to India to...

—James Martin

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Poor Chad. Not the country, but the guy. Oh, and the country’s poor too. I feel so bad for Chad. I also feel so bad for Chad.

—Jarod Kintz

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I’m a poor worker. The quality of work I do is excellent, but I make no money.

—Jarod Kintz

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No one is ever too old, too rich, too poor, to pray.

—Loretta Young

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When YOU stop believing one person in the world cannot make a difference; differences in the world will be made.

—Kellie Elmore

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Our people are good people; our people are kind people. Pray God some day kind people won’t all be poor.

—John Steinbeck

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{McCabe on the influential scientist Luther Burbank}His magnificent work, which added an incalculable sum to the wealth of America and left him a comparatively poor man, is well known. His own simple account of his...

—Luther Burbank

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If life really begins at forty, then all poor people die in their teens.

—Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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It’s easy to be humble when your life’s prosper.Nothing could be denigrated when life’s so poor.

—Toba Beta

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outcast, poor, simple, excluded, uprooted from the countryside, humiliated in the cities” but we did not understand; the mystery of leprosy has continued to haunt us because we have not recognized the nature of the...

—Umberto Eco

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The familiar mood that awaits the sensitive young who are poor and dispossessed is a mood of sharp and painful inferiority, of violently angry tensions, of desperate and overwhelming longings.

—Peter Abrahams

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There’s something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches.

—Ben Affleck

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I was so thin I could slice bread with my shoulderblades, only I seldom had bread

—Charles Bukowski

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