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“In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.”

“We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.”

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Author:Pope Francis

“The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.”

“War is a most uneconomical, foolish, poor arrangement, a bloody enrichment of that soil which bears the sweet flower of peace.”

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Author:M. E. W. Sherwood

“Poverty is the worst form of violence.”

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Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“When Christ was about to leave the world, He made His will. His soul He committed to His father; His body He bequeathed to Joseph to be decently interred; His clothes fell to the soldiers; His mother He left to the care of John; but what should He leave to His poor disciples that had left all for Him? Silver and gold He had none; but He left them that which was infinitely better, His peace.”

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Book:Bible commentary - Gospel of John

Source: Bible commentary - Gospel of John

“Without peace there can be no prosperity for any people, rich or poor. And yet, there can be no peace without erasing the harshness of the growing contrast between the rich and the poor.”

People Peace Poor Rich Growing Prosperity Contrast Rich And Poor Rich Or Poor Harshness

Book:Indira Gandhi, speeches and writings

Source: Indira Gandhi, speeches and writings

“That piecemeal peace is poor peace. What pure peace allows Alarms of wars, the daunting wars, the death of it?”

War Peace Poor Pure Alarms

Book:Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins

Source: Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins

“Every time thief steals, he steals from his own peace, from his own honour! No man is as poor as a rich thief!”

Men Peace Poor Rich Stealing Honour Thieves

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Don't worry too much about how spiritually poor you are. God sees that, but for you it is expected to trust in God and pray to Him as best you can, never to fall into despair and to struggle according to your strength.”

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Author:Seraphim Rose

“War makes good history but peace is poor reading.”

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Author:Thomas Hardy

“Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.”

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Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.”

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Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.”

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Author:Peter Ustinov

“To those peoples in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required - not because the Communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.”

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Author:John F. Kennedy

“When someone steals another's clothes, we call them a thief. Should we not give the same name to one who could clothe the naked and does not? The bread in your cupboard belongs to the hungry; the coat unused in your closet belongs to the one who needs it; the shoes rotting in your closet belong to the one who has no shoes; the money which you hoard up belongs to the poor.”

“When any relationship is characterized by difference, particularly a disparity in power, there remains a tendency to model it on the parent-child-relationship. Even protectiveness and benevolence toward the poor, toward minorities, and especially toward women have involved equating them with children.”

Children Peace Parent Differences Poor Involved Models Remains Tendencies Minorities Benevolence Disparity Parent Child Protectiveness Parent Child Relationship

Author:Mary Catherine Bateson

“The question is not, do we go to church; the question is, have we been converted. The crux of Christianity is not whether or not we give donations to popular charities but whether or not we are really committed to the poor.”

Giving Peace Church Poor Christianity Charity Committed Donation Crux

Author:Joan D. Chittister

“Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! All wars are wars among thieves who are too cowardly to fight and who therefore induce the young manhood of the whole world to do the fighting for them.”

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Author:Emma Goldman