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~ 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

~ The mother of revolution and crime is poverty. ~

Aristotle

~ In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of. ~

Confucius

~ The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved. ~

Mother Teresa

~ Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for, and with obscurity, for being unenvied. ~

Plutarch

~ Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. ~

Benjamin Franklin

~ Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright ~

Benjamin Franklin

~ It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed. ~

Kin Hubbard

~ All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil. ~

Samuel Johnson

~ Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things ~

Benjamin Franklin

~ Contentment is natural wealth, LUXURY is artificial poverty. ~

Socrates

~ Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance ~

Kofi Annan

~ Economic growth without social progress lets the great majority of people remain in poverty, while a privileged few reap the benefits of rising abundance. ~

John F. Kennedy

~ The worst kind of shame is being ashamed of frugality or poverty. ~

Titus Livy

~ Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self. ~

May Sarton

~ He who is extravagant will quickly become poor; and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption. ~

Samuel Johnson

~ Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social ostracism, the invasion of your privacy, are what constitute the pain of poverty. ~

Alice Foote MacDougall

~ To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything that is disagreeable, is not the part of a brave man, but of a coward. ~

Aristotle

~ Debt is the worst poverty. ~

Thomas Fuller

~ Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. ~

James Baldwin

~ You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it. ~

Bill Cosby

~ Within each of us lies the power of our consent to health and sickness, to riches and poverty, to freedom and to slavery. It is we who control these, and not another. ~

Richard Bach

~ For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred. ~

John W. Gardner

~ Poverty has many roots, but the tap root is ignorance ~

Lyndon B. Johnson

~ Poverty is a career for lot's of well paid people ~

Ronald Reagan

~ Wealth and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent ~

Plato

~ The mother of revolution and crime is poverty. ~

Aristotle

~ Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness. ~

George Bernard Shaw

~ Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. ~

Aristotle

~ Poverty is the worst form of violence. ~

Mahatma Gandhi

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