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“The United States is prepared really to be engaged in the quest to get people in the world the dignities that they seek today, the social justice that they feel they're deprived of, and the common solution to global problems.”

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Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski

“When the man who feeds the world by toiling in the fields is himself deprived of the basic rights of feeding, sheltering, and caring for his own family, the whole community of man is sick.”

Men World Whole Humanity Culture Community Rights Fields Diversity Sick Social Justice Caring Feeding Deprived Toiling Basic Rights

Author:Cesar Chavez

“No poor, rural, weak, or black person should ever again have to bear the additional burden of being deprived of the opportunity for an education, a job, or simple justice.”

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Book:A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety

Source: A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety

“The real illness of the American city today, and especially of the deprived groups within it, is voicelessness.”

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Author:John Henry Cox

“Anti-Semitism hits me on the head: I am enraged, I am bled white by an appalling battle, I am deprived of the possibility of being man. I cannot disassociate myself from the future that is proposed for my brother.”

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Author:Frantz Fanon

“I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I was not poor, I was needy. They told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy, I was deprived. Then they told me underprivileged was overused. I was disadvantaged. I still do not have a dime but I have a great vocabulary.”

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Author:Jules Feiffer

“The essence of a class system is not that the privileged are conscious of their privileges, but that the deprived are conscious of their deprivations.”

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Book:Always Unreliable: Memoirs

Source: Always Unreliable: Memoirs

“Imagine now a man who is deprived of everyone he loves, and at the same time of his house, his habits, his clothes, in short, of everything he possesses: he will be a hollow man, reduced to suffering and needs, forgetful of dignity and restraint, for he who loses all often loses himself.”

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Book:Survival In Auschwitz

Source: Survival In Auschwitz

“To consume the best for yourself and give the crumbs to God is blasphemy. A heart that truly worships is a heart that gives its best to God in time and substance. A heart that truly worships God gives generously to the causes of God---causes that God cares deeply about. I have to wonder whether someday we may wake up to discover that all our incestous spending on ourselves and our frantic construction of excessively luxurious places of worship---even as we ignore, for the most part, the hurting and the deprived of the world---filled God's heart with pain.”

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Book:The Grand Weaver: How God Shapes Us through the Events in Our Lives

Source: The Grand Weaver: How God Shapes Us through the Events in Our Lives