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“Comparisons with the past are of limited help: The ending of hanging won't make suicides in youth remand centres go away; the mortality, famine, rickets, scabies of Victorian slum children don't turn free school milk into a excessive luxury.”

Book:Into the Dangerous World: Some Reflections on Childhood and Its Costs

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Into the Dangerous World: Some Reflections on Childhood and Its Costs

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Marina Warner

Marina Warner is a renowned British novelist known for her unique literary style and in-depth research into mythology and folklore. Her works often blend history, culture, and personal narrative, exploring themes of gender, identity, and memory. more

“How did general prosperity encompass the entire world? Here the answer is that prosperity rises, first slowly and then increasinly fast, in all places where people can engage in peaceful and voluntary exchanges. Trade and the innovations that it makes possible provide the only known escape route from poverty.”

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Book:Minds Make Societies: How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create

Source: Minds Make Societies: How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create

“Poverty is a makeup artist in disguise.”

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Author:Emmanuel Apetsi

“Desperation only perpetuates itself.”

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Book:THE BOOK OF I.P.

Source: THE BOOK OF I.P.

“The saying that the poor are happy, the rich are unhappy seems to have been invented by the rich to persuade the poor to stay poor!”

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Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“It is terribly inhumane to block pathways out of poverty because you didn’t need those pathways.”

Poverty Privilege

Author:Bernice A. King

“A sales tax is the enemy of the poor person. It is the enemy of the elderly couple who live on fixed income. And it is the enemy of the everyday American consumer, poor or not. (From Voices of Multicultural America)”

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Author:Shirley Chisholm

“I know a lot of Americans who would be glad to settle for better bus service from their home to their jobs, or from poor neighborhoods to areas of the city where jobs are to be found. Repeated studies of riots in urban ghettos show that lack of adequate transportation was a big factor in the discontent and bitterness which caused riot conditions to erupt, but President Nixon's answer is to build a space shuttle or an SST with precious public funds, to serve a tiny elite of the population or to stimulate the economy of a state or region by creating massive and useless technological publicworks projects. (From Voices of Multicultural America)”

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Author:Shirley Chisholm

“Porque el hogar protejido por las leyes, y las riquezas, se beneficia y se proteje más y se olvida el hogar pobre. Se olvida que la familia pobre, en vez de enviar á sus hijos á la escuela los utiliza vendiendo frutas ó los tiene que alquilar, ó hacer trabajos superiores á su edad.”

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Book:A Nation Of Women: An Early Feminist Speaks Out; Mi Opinion Sobre Las Libertades, Derechos y Deberes de la Mujer (Recovering the U.s. Hispanic Literary Heritage)

Source: A Nation Of Women: An Early Feminist Speaks Out; Mi Opinion Sobre Las Libertades, Derechos y Deberes de la Mujer (Recovering the U.s. Hispanic Literary Heritage)

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