#poverty

He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty. ↗

— David Hume

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There is something about poverty that smells like death. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

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The link between peace and stability on the one hand, and social and economic growth on the other, is dialectic. Peace, poverty, and backwardness cannot mix in one region. ↗

— King Hussein I

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Extreme poverty threatens people's right to life itself and makes impossible the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms essential to a humane way of life. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

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Thus the castle of each feudal chieftain became a school of chivalry, into which any noble youth, whose parents were from poverty unable to educate him to the art of war, was readily received. ↗

— Horatio Alger

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Over one in five American children is living in poverty, and the number is rising. ↗

— Eric Alterman

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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise. ↗

— Bertolt Brecht

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Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

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Progress and Poverty was the most closely knit, fascinating, and convincing specimen of argumentation that, I believe, ever sprang from the mind of man. ↗

— Scott Brooks

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