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“Other struggling people aren't the enemy.”

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“Being spiritually asleep has deceived the vast majority of people into thinking that poverty is a poor person’s main problem in life. To those who are spiritually awake, poverty is not even a problem.”

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“Because of poverty, many a man who is not into men sometimes finds, or once found, himself inside a man.”

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“Unless you are spiritually awakened, being happy requires you to ignore or forget other people’s suffering.”

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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Funny, isn’t it? We middle-class people secretly want that the poor should remain poor, as poverty is a necessary condition for an easy supply of servants. Yet out in the open, we pretend that the penury of the masses concerns us deeply. We hide who we are and wear masks. All of us.”

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Book:The Influencer: Speed Must Have a Limit

Source: The Influencer: Speed Must Have a Limit

“Poverty is its own cruel trap but still raises questions about whether we own our possessions or are owned by them. Somewhere in the middle of Pennsylvania we saw a man who had tied the handle of a snow shovel to his belt and then piled all his belongings onto the blade, which sledded along behind him. Depending on your perspective he was either the freest man in the country or just the poorest.”

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Book:Freedom

Source: Freedom

“والدي لم يشعرني أبدًا أنّنا فقراءُ إلى هذا الحدّ، وحين ماتَ كانتْ الحقيقةُ أكبرَ مِن أن نتجاهلَها”

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Book:جسر إلى الأبد

Source: جسر إلى الأبد

“I imagined the United States becoming, slowly, through the combined effects of lack of foresight and short-term unenlightened self-interest, a third world country.”

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Author:Octavia E. Butler

“We use our eyes to see, but we use our voice to know.”

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Book:The Goodbye Song

Source: The Goodbye Song

“Don’t tell the wealthy that the nightly humming they hear in order to sleep is made possible from the distant wheels of a midnight cart being rolled by a man who dreams of a bed.”

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Book:The Goodbye Song

Source: The Goodbye Song

“In such a people world, filled with a real, immediate, and tangible sense of belongingness, did I spend the earliest years of my life. I was not only wanted, I was loved. I was cherished. The adults in my world, no doubt, had their cares and their sorrows. But childhood, by its very nature, is a magic-filled world, egocentric, wonderfully carefree, and innocent. Mine was all these things and more.”

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Book:To My Children's Children

Source: To My Children's Children