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“Where penury is felt the thought is chain'd, And sweet colloquial pleasures are but few.”

Felt Pleasure Poverty Sweet Chains

Book:William Cowper: The Task and Selected Other Poems

Source: William Cowper: The Task and Selected Other Poems

“...I swore I would battle not only for myself but for freedom and opportunity for everything living that wore chains, especially sex chains. It that meant poverty for myself and my boy then poverty we should have to suffer. If it meant social ostracism, if it meant relinquishing the literary success that lay within my grasp, then let the success go.”

Ifs Should Suffering Opportunity Social Sex Boys Poverty Battle Should Have Lays Chains My Boys Relinquishing Ostracism Social Ostracism

Book:A woman of fifty

Source: A woman of fifty

“Three were the fates. Poverty that chains; gray drudgery that grinds the hope away, and gaping ignorance that starves the soul.”

Soul Three Poverty Fate Ignorance Chains Gray Grind Drudgery

Author:Edwin Markham

“Most of Marx's predictions have failed to materialize, and his labor theory of value and other ideas have been proven wrong. Marx failed to recognize the incentive system built into the capitalist model - consumer choice and the profit motive of the entrepreneur. The irony is that capitalism, not socialism or Marxism, that has liberated the worker from the chains of poverty, monopoly, war, and oppression, and has better achieved Marx's vision of a millennium of hope, peace, abundance, leisure, and aesthetic expression for the 'full' human being.”

“What is the good news to the poor? Christ took your poverty at the cross and gave you the riches of Abraham. The chains of poverty have been broken at the cross.”

Has Beens Christ Poor Poverty Broken News Crosses Riches Chains Good News Abraham

Author:John Hagee

“Population diminishing, even in Japan and Italy, the population is diminishing. When society can reach a sustainable place or gain comfortable income, then people tend to have fewer children. Poverty makes a chain reaction of having many children. So when society reaches some kind of level, then it will turn toward getting a smaller population.”

People Kind Children Turns Levels Poverty Comfortable Gains Population Income Reactions Chains Japan Fewer Chain Reactions

Author:Hiroshi Sugimoto

“The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world. All we have to do is to free them from the chains that we have put around them!”

World Inspirational Opportunity Poor Poverty Encouragement Chains Free World

Author:Muhammad Yunus