As we will show, poor countries are poor because those who have power make choices that create poverty.
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JEAN-PAUL SARTRE A poor, who hates power, once become powerful, hates poor.
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MOTHER TERESA Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe t...
MOTHER THERESA Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe t...
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JULIAN BOND Remember that what we do is not 'to' or 'for' the poor, ... but 'with' the poor. And even if we fail...
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JANA EPEMA Using money in one’s attempt to put an end to poverty is like using a border in one’s attempt to...
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BRANDON MULL Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
JAMES ARTHUR BALDWIN You say you care about the poor? Tell me their names.
CRAIG GREENFIELD He is poor who doesnt have enough, he is poorer who cannot get enough.
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MICHAEL HARRINGTON Anyone who has struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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DR. CHARLES EDWARDS Marry a poor woman and it is God who will make you rich.
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the times when we ...
GAIL PURSELL ELLIOTT We have an obligation and a duty to create a consciousness in the entire world to help the majoritie...
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DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The destruction of the poor is their poverty.
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DOROTHY MOORE Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.
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KAREN OLSON A poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a
rich person who is unhappy because the p...
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ALICIA KEYS The fact that the poor are alive is clear proof of their ability.
MUHAMMAD YUNUS Solution is not really in making poor a rich. But in making rich a poor (justly and constructively)
WOHI PURANA Help the needy and secure your place in Heaven.
MUHAMMED HAIDER Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it is.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet ...
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CECIL WILLIAMS The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without a dream
HARRY KEMP The best way to help the poor is not to become one of them
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OSCAR WILDE Do not really like rich people, as they make us poor people feel dopey and inadequate. Not that we a...
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VISHWAS CHAVAN A nation could be full of great potentials and yet be poor and underdeveloped if those potentials ar...
CLEMENT OGEDEGBE Remember, the man who is poor is not the man that has no money, but one without a dream. They are su...
T. B. JOSHUA Man who TOY with Womans feelings and
emotions are heartless & faithless creatures.
B...
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BILL GAEDE The entrepreneur who is always on the side of the poor will make money without limit.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The difference between the wealthy and the poor are the choices and priories in there lives.
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