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“As General Eisenhower discovered, it is easier to end the Cold War or stamp out poverty than to master this devilish pastime.”

War Ends Poverty Masters Cold Easier Golf Cold War Stamps Pastime Devilish

Author:James Reston, Jr.

“We kill when we close our eyes to poverty, affliction, or infamy. We kill when, because it is easier, we countenance, or pretend to approve of atrophied social, political, educational, and religious institutions, instead of resolutely combating them.”

Eye Political Social Religious Poverty Easier Institutions Educational Affliction Countenance Infamy

Author:Hermann Hesse

“Political systems must love poverty-they produce so much of it. Poor people make easier targets for a demagogue. No Mao or even Jiang Zemin is likely to arise on the New York Stock Exchange floor. And politicians in democracies benefit from destitution, too. The US has had a broad range of poverty programs for 30 years. Those programs have failed. Millions of people are still poor. And those people vote for politicians who favor keeping the poverty programs in place. There's a conspiracy theory in there somewhere.”

Source: Eat the Rich: A Treatise on Economics

“It was easier to deal with poverty and death in India that the lack of spirituality in America.”

America Spirituality Deals Poverty Easier India

Author:Mother Teresa

“Is it different to come out now than it was to come out thirty-five years ago? Sometimes. But if you come out now and you come from poverty and you come from racism, you come from the terror of communities that are immigrant communities or communities where you're already a moving target because of who you are, this is not a place where it's any easier to be LGBT even if there's a community center in every single borough.”

Ifs Years Different Sometimes Moving Community Poverty Five Easier Racism Years Ago Who You Are Terror Thirty Five Years Immigrants Target Lgbt Community Centers

Author:Amber Hollibaugh