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"Our struggle is not easy. Those who oppose our cause are rich and powerful and they have many allies in high places. We are poor. Our allies are few. But we have something the rich do not own. We have our bodies and spirits and the justice of our cause as our weapons."
Cesar Chavez
"As long as we have a poor country bordering California, it's going to be very difficult to win strikes."
"In 1968, I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry, and unhappy like we do.."
"Do not romanticize the poor...We are all people, human beings subject to the same temptations and faults as all others. Our poverty damages our dignity."
"However important the struggle is and however much misery and poverty and degradation exist, we know that it cannot be more important than one human life."
"Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty."
Carson McCullers
"Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law."
Oliver Goldsmith
"Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty."
Henry Ford
"Entrepreneurial capitalism takes more people out of poverty than aid."
Paul David Hewson
“Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.”
Milton Berle
The Buddhist version of poverty is a situation where you have nothing to contribute.
Michael Palin
I still can't go over a subway grating without looking down to see if there is some money there.
Eartha Kitt
Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty
“If I was white, I would be like John Wayne. I feel like a tragic hero in a Shakespeare play. Somebody who pulled himself up by his bootstraps, from poverty.”
Tupac
“If poverty is a disease that infects an entire community in the form of unemployment and violence, failing schools and broken homes, then we can't just treat those symptoms in isolation. We have to heal that entire community. And we have to focus on what actually works”
Barack Obama
The main message of Climate Revolution is that climate change is caused by the rotten financial system we've got, designed to create poverty and rip off any profits for a small amount of rich people. Meanwhile, it destroys the earth.
Vivienne Westwood
Poverty’s no evil to anyone unless he kicks against it.
Marcus Aurelius
“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.”
Frederick Douglass
Ability is a poor man's wealth.
John Wooden
The poor are great! The poor are wonderful! The poor are very generous! They give us much more than what we give them
Mother Teresa
It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish
We need to realize that poverty doesn’t only consist of being hungry for bread, but rather it is a tremendous hunger for human dignity. We need to love and to be someone for someone else
Poverty was not created by God. It is we who have caused it, you and I through our egotism
The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have the more free you are. Poverty for us is a freedom. It is not mortification, a penance. It is joyful freedom. There is no television here, no this, no that. But we are perfectly happy