Inequality

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Inequality

• Ideas to get you thinking about poverty and what
  it means to people.

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When you're really poor, everything you see is
something you can't have

• Patrick Duncan

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As society advances the standard of poverty
rises.

• Theodore Parker

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I thank fate for having made me born poor.
Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts
useful to life.

• Anatole France

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Poverty is the mother of crime

• Marcus Aurelius

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Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is
confoundedly inconvenient.

• Sydney Smith

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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise

• Bertolt Brecht

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I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a
frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary
situation

• George Soros

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You cant get rid of poverty by giving people
money

• P J ORourke

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When I gave food to the poor, they called me a
saint. When I asked why the poor were hungry,
they called me a communist.

• Dom H Camara

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Real poverty is lack of books

• Sidonie Gabrielle

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I knew there was a way out. I knew there was
another kind of life because I had read about it.
I knew there were other places, and there was
another way of being.

• Oprah Winfrey

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The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest
man.

• Napoleon Bonaparte

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Dealing with poverty is not a luxury to which our
nation can attend when it finds the time and
resources. Rather, it is a moral imperative of
the highest priority

• Economic Justice Paper

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Poverty is the worst form of violence.

• Mahatma Ghandi

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Never has the human race enjoyed such an
abundance of wealth, resources and economic
power, and yet a huge proportion of the world's
citizens are still tormented by hunger and
poverty, while countless numbers suffer from
total illiteracy.

• The Church in the Modern World paper

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Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of
it is.

• English proverb

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Most of the poverty and misery in the world is
due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak
states, internal strife, and so on.

• Patrick Duncan

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It is not the man who has little, but he who
desires more, that is poor.

• Seneca

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Poverty is to be without sufficient money, but it
is also to have little hope for better things.

• Canadian Royal Commission

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Happiness and poverty do not go well together.

• G. W. Pacaud

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That so many people are poor in a nation as rich
as ours is a social and moral scandal that we
cannot ignore.

• Economic Justice Paper

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Poverty breeds lack of self reliance

• Daniel Deleon

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The end

• Collected by Mrs Griffiths