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Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.


Francis of Assisi


#begging #beneath #distinctive #does #glory

This is what happens, when, for the first time in modern history, a candidate resorts to lawsuits to try to overturn the outcome of an election for president.


James Baker


#election #first #first time #happens #history

Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out of poverty under the guidance of his widowed grandmother.


Russell Baker


#classic #grandmother #guidance #his #his way

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


James A. Baldwin


#ever #expensive #extremely #how #knows

When you have a spiritual foundation, you look at poverty differently then.


Dennis Banks


#foundation #look #poverty #spiritual #then

How come life is so important in the nine months before birth, but then we sort of forget about the importance, we're not worried about whether that baby lives in poverty once he or she is born.


Birch Bayh


#baby #before #birth #born #come

I lost my mind at 15. I'd been shown a world where there were no boundaries, where everyone gave me all the power. And I was like, 'This is great!' Then that was gone. But I was like, 'Yeah, but I still want that.' I'd lost my humble, very quiet, introverted sensibilities which I think I definitely had as a kid.


Jamie Bell


#boundaries #definitely #everyone #gave #gone

From their point of view, I had gone too far. I had to disappear. That is to say, if the Algerian army had not overthrown me, others would have done so.


Ahmed Ben Bella


#army #disappear #done #far #gone

The causes of crime are very complicated. But there is a very big literature, as you know, about single parenthood in crime, about race in crime, and about poverty in crime.


Bill Bennett


#big #causes #complicated #crime #know

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.


John Berger


#before #century #imposed #natural #other






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