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| Anatole France | It is only the poor who are forbidden to beg. | |
| Anonymous | You can have a million dollars in the bank and be controlled by money. You can have nothing but the shirt on your back and be controlled by money. | |
| David K. Shipler | A majority of working poor are American citizens, but some are immigrants, both legal and illegal, whose labor is essential to the country’s growth and comfort. | |
| David K. Shipler | Nobody who works hard should be poor in America. | |
| Dr. Samuel Johnson (1707 - 1784) | There is no being so poor and so contemptible, who does not think there is somebody still poorer, and still more contemptible. | |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth. | |
| Gregory Nazianzen | Could you from all the world all wealth procure, more would remain, whose lack would leave you poor. | |
| James Baldwin (1924 - 1987) | Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. - (Novelist) | |
| Jean Paul Sarte | The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generostiy. | |
| La Bruyere | If the mother of crime be poverty, then the father is deficiency of intellect. | |
| Lucius Annaeus Seneca | It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. | |
| Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi (1869 - 1948) | Poverty is the worst form of violence. | |
| Mohandas Gandhi (1869 - 1948) | I have friends who keep telling me how much it costs them to keep me in poverty. | |
| Plato (427 BCE - 347 BCE) | Poverty consists not in the decrease of one's possessions, but in the increase of one's greed. |
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