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“Go to war, come home as a sickened veteran, and be denied your earned disability payments to live a life of extreme poverty and hardship.”

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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.”

Class Poverty Social Commentary Howards End E M Forster

Book:Howards End

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

“Happy Labour's day! Let's make a world with better illusions!”

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Book:The New Land

Source: The New Land

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

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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“In one of the wealthiest countries in the world, privation should not come with the job description, and survival should not be an aspiration.”

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

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

“Whatever we poor men may not have, we have free speech, and no one can take it from us.”

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Book:A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present

Source: A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present

“Sickness made itself at home in their close, dark rooms, disease thriving in the absence of windows and hope.”

Book:The Virgin Cure

Source: The Virgin Cure

“Poverty is at least a trillion times more likely than wealth to make one wonder what the purpose of life is.”

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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Many of the people who regularly feed and cultivate relationships with pigeons are themselves on the fringes of society. They are disconnected from other people due to poverty, limited language skills, or mental illness, but they form deep emotional connections with the birds.”

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Book:Unseen City: The Majesty of Pigeons, the Discreet Charm of Snails & Other Wonders of the Urban Wilderness

Source: Unseen City: The Majesty of Pigeons, the Discreet Charm of Snails & Other Wonders of the Urban Wilderness

“Religion is one of the oils with which we alleviate the friction between those who have a lot and those who have nothing.”

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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana