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“Poverty has deceived many of us into believing that some people who are in that state love the food, clothes, places, and people that they do not even like. The same can be said about wealth.”

“Shyness is a luxury reserved for those who are above the poverty line. To a beggar, being shy is deadly.”

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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Poor people are generally a reminder that hard work can be ineffective.”

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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“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

“What do we mean by poverty? Not what Dickens or Blake or Mayhew meant. Today no one seriously expects to go hungry in England or to live without running water or medical care or even TV. Poverty has been redefined in industrial countries, so that anyone at the lower end of the income distribution is poor ex officio, as it were-poor by virtue of having less than the rich. And of course by this logic, the only way of eliminating poverty is by an egalitarian redistribution of wealth-even if the society as a whole were to become poorer as a result.”

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Book:Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass

Source: Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass

“The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people.”

“Most poor people do not really aspire to end poverty; they merely aspire to escape it.”

“Some people ate less food less often when they each had a home than they now do as hobos.”

“If you are poor and go without food and clothes, don't hope for wealth in paradise, you are already forsaken”

Source: Pearls Of Eternity