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

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“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

“A maid’s love for her own children often forces her to pretend to love her employer’s children.”

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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The pinball business was dirty, they said; pachinko gave off a strong odor of poverty and criminality”

Poverty Gambling Pinball Yakuza

Book:Pachinko

Source: Pachinko

“The most precious smile is the smile we see in the people in misery!”

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Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Every single parent teetering on poverty does this. We work, we love, we do. And the stress of it all, the exhaustion, leaves us hollowed. Scraped out. Ghosts of our former selves. That's how I felt for those few days after the accident, like I wasn't fully connected to the ground when I walked. I knew that at any moment, a breeze could come and blow me away.”

Author:Stephanie Land

“We would eventually get rid of poverty if there were no women or girls who are willing to sleep with men or boys who are poor.”

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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Because he has money he's a kind of god. Because I have none I'm a kind of worm. A worm because I've failed and I have no money. A worm because I'm not even sure if I hate you.”

Book:After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie

Source: After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie

“In the end, we can only do the best we can with who we are, paying close attention to the ways pieces of ourselves matter to the work while never losing sight of the most important questions.”

Life Lessons Poverty

Book:Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

Source: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

“The liberal state was not all that liberal when it came to the establishment of the external conditions for the free flow of economic entrepreneurship. Roads, railroads and regulating the poor became essential.”

Government Poor Poverty Liberalism

Book:Limits to Pain: The Role of Punishment in Penal Policy

Source: Limits to Pain: The Role of Punishment in Penal Policy