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The stark and tragic images of human suffering in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina have reminded us yet again that civil rights… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
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Oh, shut up. He is not saying that he's too good-looking to be friends with girls. But then again, yesterday at the… — Kiersten White Copy Share Image
Nicaragua is a World Bank and International Monetary Fund designated 'heavily indebted poor country,' with little legal ability to control its economic… — Tony D'Souza Copy Share Image
Steve Van Zandt, the poor guy, doesn't get to play enough as it is with me hogging a lot of the solos.… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
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Money is a needful and precious thing, and when well used, a noble thing, but I never want you to think it… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Stardom equals financial success and financial success equals security. I've spent too much of my life feeling insecure. I still have nightmares… — Steve McQueen Copy Share Image
Western doctors are like poor plumbers. They treat a splashing tub by cleaning up the water. These plumbers are extremely apt at… — Denis Parsons Burkitt Copy Share Image
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The truth is, the vast majority of medical care for lower income people in America is shitty. If you go to a… — Molly Crabapple Copy Share Image
I met Jay Jonhson. I won him the way poor people occasionally win the lottery: Shameless perseverance and embarrassingly dumb luck, and… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
Note even Jonathan Swift would dare to write a satire in which politicians argued that - in a world where species are… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
Christianity is not about building an absolutely secure little niche in the world where you can live with your perfect little wife… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
Strange a God who mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness, then invented hell; who mouths morals to other people and has none Himself;… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I choose the poverty of our poor people. But I am grateful to receive it (the Nobel) in the name of the… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
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An enlightened society is one where all people - the rich and the poor, the literate and the illiterate, the black and… — Pandurang Shastri Athavale Copy Share Image
Progressive liberals seem incapable of stating the obvious truth: that we who are well off should be willing to share more of… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Saudia Arabia takes in half a trillion dollars every year in oil revenue, and the country has a population smaller than New… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
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You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read, since I first… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
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The irony and tragedy is any woman of means can have a safe abortion somewhere in the United States. But women lacking… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
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The proletarians, driven to despair, will seize the torch which Stephens has preached to them; the vengeance of the people will come… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
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