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“Countless souls are starving to death around the world, yet you keep wasting heaps of money on alcohol, cigarettes and cheap thrills - how can you be so nonchalant, my friend!”

Book:Lives to Serve Before I Sleep

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“Order and good government, and along with them the liberty and security of individuals, were in this manner established in cities, at a time when the occupiers of land in the country, were exposed to every sort of violence. But men in this defenceless state naturally content themselves with their necessary subsistence; because, to acquire more, might only tempt the injustice of their oppressors. On the contrary, when they are secure of enjoying the fruits of their industry, they naturally exert it to better their condition, and to acquire not only the necessaries, but the conveniencies and elegancies of life.”

Poverty Society Security Equity

Book:An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

“Isn't it...dicey? people our parents' age would say, grimacing, when we told them where we lived, and it took all my willpower not to say, Do you mean black, or just poor? Because it was both.”

Race Poverty Racism African Americans Blacks Neighborhoods Bad Neighborhoods

Book:Florida

Source: Florida

“Making women into small business owners, factory workers, and heads of households, not participants & leaders of collective social movements or activists demanding more accountability of the World Trade Organization, the IMF or the World Bank, these institutions maintain control over the economic growth and development of these countries and provide access to cheap labor, mineral resources, and military bases for the global north while the women themselves remain at or below poverty level.”

Poverty Feminism Development Third World Microbusiness

Book:Feminist Accountability: Disrupting Violence and Transforming Power

Source: Feminist Accountability: Disrupting Violence and Transforming Power

“The poorest form of poverty is when you beg for attention.”

Poverty Attention Span

Author:Nitya Prakash

“Those who have the least are usually the ones who know the most about politics.”

Politics Poor Poverty Equality Inequality Deprived Disadvantaged Underprivileged Impoverished Poverty Stricken

Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Not poor? How can you sit there and say that with a straight face? Why I remember your momma told my momma once that your daddy got drunk and spent his paycheck and you had to pick up beer bottles alongside the road for lunch money and you had holes in the bottoms of your shoes. You had to line them with newspapers. If that ain’t poor, I sure don’t know what is.”

Poverty Drunk Alcoholism

Book:The Jailing of Cecelia Capture

Source: The Jailing of Cecelia Capture

“She had been the daughter of a half-insane, mean old woman and an ineffective alcoholic father, and she had grown up poor and unwanted. She had been an unmarried welfare mother and finally become a drunk herself.”

Poverty Alcoholism

Book:The Jailing of Cecelia Capture

Source: The Jailing of Cecelia Capture

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