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“As it was 189 years ago, so today the cause of America is a revolutionary cause. And I am proud this morning to salute you as fellow revolutionaries. Neither you nor I are willing to accept the tyranny of poverty, nor the dictatorship of ignorance, nor the despotism of ill health, nor the oppression of bias and prejudice and bigotry. We want change. We want progress. We want it both abroad and at homeand we aim to get it.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966

“If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.”

Ifs Art Poverty Willing Art Is Being True Great Art Boast

Book:The Works of Ben Jonson

Source: The Works of Ben Jonson

“I've come across a lot of people in my life who talk about poverty and talk about the poor, but you rarely have a sense that it matters to them to the point at which they will be willing to sacrifice something.”

People Matter Poor Poverty Sacrifice Willing

Author:Kumi Naidoo

“More than poverty, more than degree of education, religion, access to natural resources, even degree of democracy - violence against females is the biggest indicator of whether a country will be violent in itself or be willing to use military violence against another country.”

Country Use Natural Poverty Democracy Violence Military Willing Degrees Resources Female Access Violent Natural Resources Indicators

Author:Gloria Steinem

“The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.”

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Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“As long as a population can be induced to believe in a supernatural hereafter, it can be oppressed and controlled. People will put up with all sorts of tyranny, poverty, and painful treatment if they're convinced that they'll eventually escape to some resort in the sky where lifeguards are superfluous and the pool never closes. Moreover, the faithful are usually willing to risk their skins in whatever military adventure their government may currently be promoting.”

Source: Skinny Legs and All

“I promise to love and cherish you, to honor and sustain you, in sickness and in health, in poverty and in wealth,in the bad that may darken our days, in the good that may light our way. Tirzah, beloved, I promise to be true to you in all things until I die. And even beyond that, God willing”

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Author:Francine Rivers

“A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.”

Men Work Poverty Sun Willing Sight Fortune Inequality Unemployment Exhibits Saddest

Author:Thomas Carlyle