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“What makes the Southern Poverty Law Center particularly odious is its habit of taking legitimate conservatives and jumbling them with genuine hate groups (the Klan, Aryan Nation, skinheads, etc.), to make it appear that there's a logical relationship between say opposing affirmative action and lynching, or demands for an end to government services for illegal aliens and attacks on dark-skinned immigrants. The late novelist/philosopher Ayn Rand called this 'the broad-brush smear.'”

“Terrorism is fueled by hate. The tragedy is that there are countless young children who are being taught to hate. Terrorism is usually fueled also by poverty.”

Children Young Hate Poverty Taught Tragedy Terrorism Young Children

Author:Jane Goodall

“a call girl is simply someone who hates poverty more than she hates sin.”

Hate Girl Sin Poverty Prostitution

Author:Sydney Biddle Barrows

“Give me, indulgent gods with mind serene, And guiltless heart, to range the sylvan scene, No splendid poverty, no smiling care, No well-bred hate, or servile grandeur, there.”

Giving Mind Wells Heart Care Hate Poverty Scene Give Me Satisfaction Range Splendid Grandeur Serene

Book:The Works of the Author of the Night-thoughts: In Four [i.e. Five] Volumes

Source: The Works of the Author of the Night-thoughts: In Four [i.e. Five] Volumes

“Self-hate is a form of mental slavery that results in poverty, ignorance, and crime.”

Self Form Hate Results Poverty Crime Ignorance Slavery Self Hate Mental Slavery

Author:Susan L. Taylor

“In fact, everything that emanates from source emanates from a source of well-being. When we take on this ego consciousness, when we take on hate rather than love in our hearts, we create all of this divisiveness, and we create all of the problems, the struggles, the difficulties, the diseases, the poverty.”

Wells Heart Facts Problem Hate Consciousness Poverty Struggle Source Ego Disease Difficulty Well Being Emanate Divisiveness

Author:Wayne Dyer

“The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.”

Source: In Memoriam, Charles F. Kettering

“You talk about a hateful bunch of people. They have this hate list. Charles Murray. He has been victimized with riots on college campus because he is depicted as a profound hater on the Southern Poverty Law Center website and the left treats that place like a Bible.”

People Hate Poverty College Profound Southern Website Hateful Riot

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“The Southern Poverty Law Center is a hate group rivaled only by the Democrat Party. The Southern Poverty Law Center... Folks, if there's anything you should ignore - and there are a lot of things you should ignore - put the Southern Poverty Law Center on the list.”

Hate Party Poverty Democrat Southern

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“The Master said, "Wealth and honor are things that all people desire, and yet unless they are acquired in the proper way I will not abide them. Poverty and disgrace are things that all people hate, and yet unless they are avoided in the proper way I will not despise them. If the gentleman abandons ren, how can he be worthy of that name? The gentleman does not violate ren even for the amount of time required to eat a meal. Even in times of urgency or distress, he does not depart from it."”

People Ifs Way Doe Said Desire Hate Names Wealth Poverty Masters Amount Honor Worthy Gentleman Meals Abandon Despise Distress Avoided Disgrace Urgency

Author:Confucius

“A broken heart is such a shabby thing, like poverty and failure and the incurable diseases which are also deforming. I hate it and am ashamed of it, and I must somehow repair this heart and put it back into its normal condition, as a tough somewhat scarred but operating organ.”

Heart Hate Poverty Conditions Broken Disease Normal Tough I Hate Ashamed Broken Heart Organs Broken Hearted Shabby Incurable Disease

Book:The letters of Martha Gellhorn

Source: The letters of Martha Gellhorn