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Poverty Quotes

"Those who dealt in guineas were not usually of the impoverished class."

"Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty."

"Throwing away food is like stealing from the table of those who are poor and hungry."

"Every gun that is made every warship launched every rocket fired signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed those who are cold and are not clothed"

"The love of money is not the root of all evil. The lack of money is the root of all evil."

"If you are born poor it's not your mistake, but if you die poor it's your mistake."

"I've never seen a homeless guy with a bottle of Gatorade"

"I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, livin' in the hopeless, hungry side of town"

"There is no greater spellbinder of the mind than the chime of silver coins upon a begging plate."

"We cannot sleep peacefully while babies are dying of hunger and the elderly are without medical assistance."

"To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others and his idleness from himself"

"Poverty in democracy is as much to be preferred to so-called prosperity under despots, as freedom to slavery."

"He who covets is a poor man because he wants so many things "

"The country has socialism for the rich, rugged individualism for the poor"

"Please, sir, I want some more"

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