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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
James Baldwin
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James Baldwin
American
Novelist
Born:
Aug 2
,
1924
Died:
Dec 1
,
1987
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Struggled
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Knows
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How
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Anyone
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Poor
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Who
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Ever
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Mother Teresa
Loneliness
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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
Class
Property
Justice
Ignorance
Will
Made
Conspiracy
Poverty
Society
Neither
Degrade
Prevails
Feel
Rob
Safe
Nor
Oppress
Denied
Any
Where
Them
Persons
Enforced
Organized
We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.
Mother Teresa
Sometimes
Poverty
Naked
Unwanted
Own
Think
Our
Unloved
Hungry
Kind
Must
Only
Remedy
Greatest
Being
Homeless
Homes
Start
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
Wealth
Poverty
Country
Something
Badly
Well
Governed
Ashamed
Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth... these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food security and women's empowerment. Solutions to one problem must be solutions for all.
Ban Ki-moon
Environmental
Health
Food
Change
Fight
Women
People
Problem
Water
Poverty
Energy
Saving
Our
Our Planet
Out
Security
Must
Solutions
Scarcity
Economic
Economic Growth
Lifting
Advancing
Between
Global
Empowerment
Climate
Climate Change
Same
Shortages
Dots
Planet
Connect
Growth
As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.
Nelson Mandela
Injustice
World
Rest
Long
Poverty
Our
Our World
Inequality
None
Truly
Persist
Us
Gross
Poverty is the worst form of violence.
Mahatma Gandhi
Poverty
Worst
Form
Violence
There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism.
bell hooks
Life
Death
Food
Terrorism
Poverty
Every
Addiction
State
Our
Extreme
No Life
Drink
Life-Threatening
Abuse
Toxic
Domestic
Child
Child Abuse
Closer
Whether
Warfare
Us
Bodies
Act
Found
Mundane
Brings
Violence
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
Mother Teresa
Poverty
Unwanted
Nothing
Think
Everybody
Unloved
Hunger
Eat
Greater
Than
Person
Forgotten
Being
Much
Who
As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
Henry David Thoreau
Life
You
Solitude
Will
Poverty
Universe
Weakness
Laws
Simpler
Simplify
Nor
Your
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