We failed to learn from the stories that warned us that if we create environments that perpetuate poverty, that force the people in them to beg and steal, the we're equally to blame for many of their outcomes

Ginger Scott
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  1. It is a common condition of being poor... you are always afraid that the good things in your life are temporary, that someone can take them away, because you have no power beyond your own brute strength to stop them. - Rick Bragg
  2. The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel... its poverty by how little. - Sherrilyn Kenyon
  3. [W]hen it's slow, they send you home, and when it's busy, they expect you to stay late. They also expect you to be able to come in to cover someone's shift if a co-worker gets sick at the last minute. Basically, they're expecting you to... - Linda Tirado
  4. A man may beg, but a woman has to sell. - Victor Hugo
  5. Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools. - J.k. Rowling
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  1. We failed to learn from the stories that warned us that if we create environments that perpetuate poverty, that force the people in them to beg and steal, the we're equally to blame for many of their outcomes
  2. Ugly doesn't have a color. It lives among selfishness and hate
  3. Some people are racist. Some people are jealous. Some people are just fucking ignorant, she says, her eyes coming up to meet mine as her fingers let go of my shirt. Don't let someone else dictate how your heart feels about someone
  4. I gotta go but... I miss you. That's all."" I miss you too", I say hugging my body tightly with the sleeves of his shirt. This... Is falling.
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