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“Poor doesn’t matter as much if you can make a place for yourself and be respected.”

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“It is altogether curious, your first contact with poverty. You have thought so much about poverty—it is the thing you have feared all your life, the thing you knew would happen to you sooner or later; and it, is all so utterly and prosaically different. You thought it would be quite simple; it is extraordinarily complicated. You thought it would be terrible; it is merely squalid and boring. It is the peculiar lowness of poverty that you discover first; the shifts that it puts you to, the complicated meanness, the crust-wiping.”

Poverty

Book:Down and Out in Paris and London

Source: Down and Out in Paris and London

“Other struggling people aren't the enemy.”

Poverty Addiction Inequality Elites Social Class Power To The People

Author:Nathan Monk

“Being spiritually asleep has deceived the vast majority of people into thinking that poverty is a poor person’s main problem in life. To those who are spiritually awake, poverty is not even a problem.”

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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Because of poverty, many a man who is not into men sometimes finds, or once found, himself inside a man.”

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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Unless you are spiritually awakened, being happy requires you to ignore or forget other people’s suffering.”

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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Funny, isn’t it? We middle-class people secretly want that the poor should remain poor, as poverty is a necessary condition for an easy supply of servants. Yet out in the open, we pretend that the penury of the masses concerns us deeply. We hide who we are and wear masks. All of us.”

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Book:The Influencer: Speed Must Have a Limit

Source: The Influencer: Speed Must Have a Limit

“Poverty is its own cruel trap but still raises questions about whether we own our possessions or are owned by them. Somewhere in the middle of Pennsylvania we saw a man who had tied the handle of a snow shovel to his belt and then piled all his belongings onto the blade, which sledded along behind him. Depending on your perspective he was either the freest man in the country or just the poorest.”

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Book:Freedom

Source: Freedom

“والدي لم يشعرني أبدًا أنّنا فقراءُ إلى هذا الحدّ، وحين ماتَ كانتْ الحقيقةُ أكبرَ مِن أن نتجاهلَها”

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Book:جسر إلى الأبد

Source: جسر إلى الأبد

“I imagined the United States becoming, slowly, through the combined effects of lack of foresight and short-term unenlightened self-interest, a third world country.”

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Author:Octavia E. Butler

“We use our eyes to see, but we use our voice to know.”

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Book:The Goodbye Song

Source: The Goodbye Song

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