9 Quotes About Poverty Wealth

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We live in a world where a hut made of clay is more durable than brick buildings, because poverty doesn't allow it to be reconstructed. Munia Khan
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Our highest deeds come from helping the lowest people. Matshona Dhliwayo
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I hate my country. There are so many rich people who don't share their shit. They're like spoiled little ten-year-old bullies on the playground. They hog the monkey bars and the slide and the seesaw. And if you complain even a little bit, if you try to get just one spin on the merry-go-round, the bullies beat the shit out of you. Sherman Alexie
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If you are poor and go without food and clothes, don't hope for wealth in paradise, you are already forsaken Bangambiki Habyarimana
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Greed applied is prosperity realized". ~R. Alan Woods [2006] R. Alan Woods
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I knew, of course, that I should be well paid for my services, but I would gladly have accepted half the sum I expected if I could have had it that night, for our little treasury was wholly exhausted, and we had not sixpence to purchase a breakfast for the following day. When the great hall door shut upon me, and I found myself on the pavement, with all the luxury and splendour on one side, and I and my desolation on the other, the contrast struck me cruelly, for I too, had been rich, and dwelt in illuminated palaces, and had a train of liveried servants at my command, and sweet music had echoed through my halls. I felt desperate, and drawing my hat over my eyes I began pacing the square, forming wild plans for the relief or escape from my misery. ("The Italian's Story"). Catherine Crowe
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Silently, sadly, the earth covered life coinage is read both ways; so much vs. so little and…so little vs. …so much! Wes Adamson
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Christie: “Even if he is — aren’t you the one who’s always saying we shouldn’t trust the wealthy, that they became that way by walking on the backs of the poor? William Carmichael