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“Sometimes in June, when I see unearned dividends of dew hung on every lupine, I have doubts about the real poverty of the sands. On solvent farmlands lupines do not even grow, much less collect a daily rainbow of jewels.”

Real Sometimes Grows Poverty Doubt Sand Rainbow Hung Jewels June Dew Dividends Farmland

Book:A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There

Source: A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There

“The right of individual property is no doubt the very corner-stone of civilization, as hitherto understood; but I am a little impatient of being told that property is entitled to exceptional consideration because it bears all the burdens of the state. It bears those, indeed, which can be most easily borne, but poverty pays with its person the chief expenses of war, pestilence, and famine.”

Source: Essays, English and American

“Nearly all inmates are drawn from the ranks of the powerless and the poor. A child of privilege frequently receives the benefit of the doubt; a child of poverty seldom does.”

Children Doe Poor Poverty Doubt Benefits Privilege Powerless Inmates Benefit Of The Doubt

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Jimmy Carter, 1978

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Jimmy Carter, 1978

“I sold a book six years after I left an MFA program. In between, there was a lot of endurance of poverty and a lot of fighting off doubt. It's all a part of the process of being or becoming a writer.”

Years Book Fighting Left Process Poverty Doubt Becoming Six Program Endurance

Author:Chad Harbach

“What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences.”

Men Should Heart Done Action Young Fighting Poverty Doubt Conscience Men And Women Young Man Hopeless Hopelessness Zoos Being Done

Author:Abbe Pierre

“To do such a thing would be to transcend magic. And I beheld, unclouded by doubt, a magnificent vision of all that invisibility might mean to a man—the mystery, the power, the freedom. Drawbacks I saw none. You have only to think! And I, a shabby, poverty-struck, hemmed-in demonstrator, teaching fools in a provincial college, might suddenly become—this.”

Thinking Men Mean Might Would Be Vision Poverty Doubt Saws Magic Mystery Teaching College Fool Magnificent Invisibility Shabby Drawbacks

Book:The Invisible Man

Source: The Invisible Man