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“President Trump, why are you so mean to the poor?”

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“... he learned that when people are very poor they still have something to give and the impulse to give it. He developed a love for poor people he could not have conceived if he had not been poor himself.”

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Book:East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

“Money changes some people: Many a woman goes from being ashamed of being some poor or broke man’s girlfriend to being proud of being his girlfriend or even ex-girlfriend as soon as she realizes that he has become rich.”

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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I didn’t realise that we were also soldiers, fightin' a war o' wealth—only that those of us crushed beneath the boots o' the rich worked to make 'em newer, heavier boots.”

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Book:Lifemaker

Source: Lifemaker

“There is a clear government agenda to send the majority of the disabled into extreme poverty.”

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Author:Steven Magee

“The degree of our happiness is not determined by (what we regard as) the source of our happiness.”

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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Being poor or broke is made to seem worse than it is by the myth that we need to eat three meals a day.”

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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Behind the veneer of the ‘Greatest Nation On Earth’, you find a society filled with sick and disabled people that are in extreme poverty.”

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Author:Steven Magee

“You don't want to be poor and look poor, too,' they would say; and 'We've got our pride. Yes, we've got our pride.”

Book:Lark Rise to Candleford

Source: Lark Rise to Candleford

“Let any one who is acquainted with what multitudes of people get their daily bread in this city by their labour, whether artificers or meer workmen—I say, let any man consider what must be the miserable condition of this town if, on a sudden, they should all be turned out of employment, that labour should cease, and wages for work be no more. This was the case with us at that time; and had not the sums of money contributed in charity by well-disposed people of every kind, as well as abroad as at home, been prodigiously great, it had not been in the power of the Lord Mayor and sheriffs to have kept the publick peace. Nor were they without apprehensions, as it was, that desperation should push the people upon tumults and cause them to rifle the houses of rich men and plunder the markets of provisions; in which case the country people, who brought provisions very freely and boldly to town, would have been terrified from coming any more, and the town would have sunk under an unavoidable famine.”

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Book:A Journal of the Plague Year

Source: A Journal of the Plague Year

“Sometimes the things that are felt the most are expressed between two souls over the distance and over time...where no words abide. And others may speak freely, live with one another freely, express themselves freely– just like everyone else, but then there is you... you have no words for proof of reassurance, no tokens of professed love, but you have something. Something worth keeping.”

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Book:Saint Paul Trois Chateaux: 1948

Source: Saint Paul Trois Chateaux: 1948