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“When poverty comes, wealth looks back at you. Will you seek it again?”

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“St Laurence gathered the poor, the blind, and the lame together in the church in Rome and brought in the rapacious Roman authorities, proclaiming, “Here are the riches of the Church!” Whenever Christians refuse to use the word “Church” as a synonym for “those in prominent roles in the clergy hierarchy,” but instead assume and take for granted that “Church” means principally the uncelebrated, the downtrodden, and the poor, the Holy Spirit is active in making the stories of Church history live in the habits of Christian speech.”

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Source: My Name is Child of God: A First-Person Look At Poverty

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“We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet. This story deals with gentlefolk, or with those who are obliged to pretend that they are gentlefolk.”

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Source: Howards End

“To smash something is the ghetto's chronic need. Most of the time it is the members of the ghetto who smash each other, and themselves. But as long as the ghetto walls are standing there will always come a moment when these outlets do not work.”

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Book:Notes of a Native Son

Source: Notes of a Native Son

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Book:The New Land

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“Even most of those whose wealth was not inherited or won often lose sleep over losing their wealth.”

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Source: The View From Flyover Country: Essays by Sarah Kendzior