Quotes with poverty-stricken

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  • Ben Shahn When you talk about war on poverty it doesn't mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today.
    Ben Shahn
    Lithuanian-born American artist (1898 - 1969)
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  • Frederick Douglass Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
    Frederick Douglass
    African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator and writer (1818 - 1895)
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  • Jane Austen Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • St. Francis of Assisi Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.
    St. Francis of Assisi
    Italian saint, founder of the Franciscan monastic order (1182 - 1226)
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  • Nelson Mandela While poverty persists, there is no true freedom.
    Ambassador of Conscience Award Acceptance Speech, 1-11-2006
    Nelson Mandela
    South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader (1918 - 2013)
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  • Josh Billings Wisdom deprives even poverty of half its power.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Robert Pollok With one hand he put a penny in the urn of poverty, and with the other took a shilling out.
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  • Bill Cosby You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • P. J. O'Rourke You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.
    P. J. O'Rourke
    American journalist (1947 - )
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  • Brian Tracy You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.
    Brian Tracy
    Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self-development aut (1944 - )
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  • Emily Dickinson 'Tis so much joy! 'Tis so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so this side the victory!
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • Lewis Mumford A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.
    Lewis Mumford
    American social philosopher (1895 - 1990)
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  • Elbert Hubbard A person born with an instinct for poverty.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Thomas Fuller Debt is the worst poverty.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Robert F. Kennedy I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
    Robert F. Kennedy
    American Senator (1925 - 1968)
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  • Aristotle In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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