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“So many sins against the poor cry out to high heaven! One of the most deadly sins is to deprive the laborer of his hire. There is another: to instill in him paltry desires so compulsive that he is willing to sell his liberty and his honor to satisfy them. We are all guilty of concupiscence, but newspapers, radios, television, and battalions of advertising men (woe to that generation!) deliberately stimulate our desires, the satisfaction of which so often means the degradation of the family.”

“Among the poor, the approach of dissolution is usually regarded with a quiet and natural composure, which it is consolatory to contemplate, and which is as far removed from the dead palsy of unbelief as it is from the delirious raptures of fanaticism. Theirs is a true, unhesitating faith, and they are willing to lay down the burden of e weary life, in the sure and certain hope of a blessed immortality.”

Death Certain Natural Poor Willing Quiet Approach Blessed Lays Burden Immortality Contemplating Weary Fanaticism Rapture Unbelief Dissolution Composure Delirious

Author:Robert Southey

“To defend something is always to discredit it. Let a man have a warehouse full of gold, let him be willing to give away a ducat to every one of the poor - but let him also be stupid enough to begin this charitable undertaking of his with a defense in which he offers three good reasons in justification; and it will almost come to the point of people finding it doubtful whether indeed he is doing something good. But now for Christianity. Yes, the person who defends that has never believed in it.”

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Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party...and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit stupider, more rigid, more doctrinaire in their laissez-faire capitalism than the Democrats, who are cuter, prettier, a bit more corrupt - until recently... and more willing than the Republicans to make small adjustments when the poor, the black, the anti-imperialists get out of hand. But, essentially, there is no difference between the two parties.”

Two States Hands Bits Black Differences Poor United Party United States Willing Republican Capitalism Wings Property Democrat Adjustment Right Wing Laissez Faire Laissez Faire Capitalism

Author:Gore Vidal

“With those who are willing to join, let us cooperate to reduce the burden of arms, to strengthen the structure of peace, to lift up the poor and the hungry.”

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Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1969

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1969

“Distance, n. The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs and keep.”

Poor Rich Willing Distance

Book:The Devil's Dictionaries: The Best of the Devil's Dictionary and the American Heretic's Dictionary

Source: The Devil's Dictionaries: The Best of the Devil's Dictionary and the American Heretic's Dictionary

“Superior leaders are willing to admit a mistake and cut their losses. Be willing to admit that you've changed your mind. Don't persist when the original decision turns out to be a poor one.”

Mind Turns Loss Decision Poor Mistake Leader Cutting Changed Willing Originals Superiors Persist You've Changed

Author:Brian Tracy

“While big corporations make huge, tax-free profits, taxes for the everyday working person skyrocket. While politicians take free trips around the world, those same politicians cut back food stamps for the poor. While politicians increase their salaries, millions of people are being laid off. I do not understand a government so willing to spend millions of dollars on arms, to explore outer space, even the planet Jupiter, and at the same time close down day care centers and fire stations.”

Source: Assata: An Autobiography

“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.”

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Author:Kumi Naidoo

“You have to be willing to see that sometimes the governments of these poor countries don't come through. You have to think about that as a constraint. How do you help them be better? How do you come up with things that actually work, even in those tough situations.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“We're foolish if we think we're going to end mass incarceration unless we are willing to deal with the reality that huge percentages of poor people are going to remain jobless, locked out of the mainstream economy, unless and until they have a quality education that prepares them well for the new economy. There has got to be much more collaboration between the two movements and a greater appreciation for the work of the advocates in each community. It's got to be a movement that's about education, not incarceration - about jobs, not jails.”

“The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.”

Men Poor Willing Judging Distance Halfway Distance Relationship Half Way

Author:Laurence J. Peter

“Great leaders are willing to sacrifice the numbers to save the people. Poor leaders sacrifice the people to save the numbers.”

People Inspirational Poor Numbers Leader Sacrifice Willing Great Leader True Leadership Leadership By Great Leaders Great Sacrifice

Author:Simon Sinek