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“Some tribes [of monkeys] have taken to washing potatoes in the river before eating them, others have not. Sometimes migrating groups of potato-washers meet non-washers, and the two groups watch each other's strange behavior with apparent bewilderment. But unlike the inhabitants of Lilliput, who fought holy crusades over the question at which end to break the egg, the potato-washing monkeys do not go to war with the non-washers, because the poor creatures have no language which would enable them to declare washing a diving commandment and eating unwashed potatoes a deadly heresy.”

“The poor are always rich in children, and in the dirt and ditches of this street there are groups of them from morning to night, hungry, naked and dirty. Children are the living flowers of the earth, but these had the appearance of flowers that have faded prematurely, because they grew in ground where there was no healthy nourishment.”

Children Earth Night Poor Morning Rich Groups Streets Flower Grew Healthy Appearance Hungry Naked Dirty Dirt Nourishment Faded

Book:The Maxim Gorky MEGAPACK®: 61 Classic Novels and Stories

Source: The Maxim Gorky MEGAPACK®: 61 Classic Novels and Stories

“Community is and must be inclusive. The great enemy of community is exclusivity. Groups that exclude others because they are poor or doubters or divorced or sinners or of some different race or nationality are not communities; they are cliques--actually defensive bastions against community.”

Different Community Poor Race Enemy Groups Sinner Divorced Nationality Clique Doubters Different Races Exclusivity

Book:The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace

Source: The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace

“Sociologists and historians have avoided looking for the family sources of wars and social violence. Whenever a group produces murderers, the early parental relationship must have been abusive and neglectful. Yet this elementary truth has not even begun to be considered in historical research; just stating that poor mothering lies behind wars seems blasphemous.”

Has Beens War Seems Lying Social Poor Behinds Violence Groups Produce Source Research Historical Historian Murderer Avoided Parental Abusive Mothering Sociologists Historical Research

Author:Lloyd deMause

“The poor have been sent to the front lines of a federal budget deficit reduction war that few other groups were drafted to fight.”

Has Beens War Fighting Lines Poor Poverty Groups Fronts Injustice Budgets Deficit Reduction Budget Deficit

Book:Families in Peril: An Agenda for Social Change

Source: Families in Peril: An Agenda for Social Change

“During the Great Depression, African Americans were faced with problems that were not unlike those experienced by the most disadvantaged groups in society. The Great Depression had a leveling effect, and all groups really experienced hard times: poor whites, poor blacks.”

Hard Problem Poor Groups Effects African American Hard Times Great Depression Disadvantaged

Author:William Julius Wilson

“Get a millionaire mentor. Most of us were brought up middle class or poor and then hold ourselves to the limits and ideas of that group. I have been studying millionaires to duplicate what they did. Get your own personal millionaire mentor and study them. Most rich people are extremely generous with their knowledge and their resources.”

People Has Beens Ideas Poor Class Study Rich Groups Middle Limits Resources Generous Middle Class Mentor Millionaire Rich People Duplicate

Author:Grant Cardone

“War in its essence is another form of capitalism. Wars make people rich - and they make a lot of people poor, and they take a lot of people's lives away from them. So much of the war that is happening is the attempt of one group to snatch the resources of another group.”

People War Form Poor Rich Groups Happenings Capitalism Resources Essence

Author:Bell Hooks

“You've got so many groups that have no voice in this world - the indigenous, the poor. So how can I use the resources that I have and bring them up, highlight them. And it's not that difficult. It's just choosing and concentrating and focusing.”

World Use Difficult Voice Poor Groups This World Resources Indigenous Concentrating Highlights

Author:Anita Roddick

“In the bible homosexuality is condemned, but along with divorce and greed and callousness toward poor people. So its elevation to a highest priority among some religious groups has been very disturbing to me.”

People Has Beens Religious Poor Groups Highest Greed Divorce Priorities Homosexuality Poor People Disturbing Elevation Callousness

Author:Jimmy Carter

“I came to the realization that a strong female is frightening to everybody, because all societies are male-dominated, black societies, poor people, rich people, any racial group, they're all dominated by men. A strong female is going to threaten everybody across the board...”

People Men Strong Black Poor Rich Groups Female Males Realization Boards Frightening Poor People Rich People Strong Female

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“Pete Ham in the group was a very good writer.Â He wrote the Nilsson song "Without You", which is a seriously good song.Â But the poor fellow topped himself.Â He was a lovely bloke, I can still see him now.Â It was a terrible loss.”

Stills I Can Song Loss Poor Groups Terrible Fellows Very Good Lovely Without You Good Writers Ham Blokes

Author:Paul McCartney

“In some ways Jews and the various largely Catholic and often poor European immigrant groups were "white," as the historian Tom Guglielmo has recently put it, "on arrival." Where naturalization law was concerned, for example, ample precedents recognized their ability to become citizens, a right explicitly resting on their "whiteness." But they also remained, as Working toward Whiteness puts it, "on trial" for a harrowingly long time.”

Way Long Law Ability White Poor Groups Example Citizens Long Time Concerned Catholic Jew Various Trials Immigrants Historian Toms Arrivals Precedent Whiteness

Author:David Roediger