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A time comes when silence is betrayal. That time has come for us in relation to Vietnam. A nation that continues year after year to… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Each of the Iraqi children killed by the United States was our child. Each of the prisoners tortured in Abu Ghraib was our comrade. Each… — Arundhati Roy
I believe in total immersion, if you want to be rich, you have to program your mind to be rich. You have to unlearn all… — Jordan Belfort
Before God, there is neither Greek nor barbarian, neither rich nor poor, and the slave is as good as his master, for by birth all… — Lord Acton
In fact every belief is an obstacle. It does not even require your realization, since you are already who you are. But without realization, who… — Eckhart Tolle
The poor fatherless baby of eight months is now the utterly broken-hearted and crushed widow of forty-two! My life as a happy one is ended!… — Queen Victoria
Well, as you know, there are many things in life that are not fair, that wealthy people can afford and poor people cant. But I… — Jimmy Carter
We placed the wreaths upon the splendid granite sarcophagus, and at its feet, and felt that only the earthly robe we loved so much was… — Queen Victoria
There is but one love of Jesus, as there is but one person in the poor - Jesus. We take vows of chastity to love… — Mother Teresa
To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious. — Thomas Traherne
Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-work, and how ill requited! Why should… — William Shakespeare
Are there not thousands in the world who love their fellows even to the death, who feel the giant agony of the world, and more,… — John Keats
If there are people who feel that God wants them to change the structures of society, that is something between them and their God. We… — Mother Teresa
A nation as such does not give aid to another nation. More precisely, the common citizens of our country, through their taxes, give to the… — Michael Parenti
I dream that someday the United States will be on the side of the peasants in some civil war. I dream that we will be… — Michael Parenti
The US government is usually on the wrong side against the poor and downtrodden, because the wrong side is the right side, given the class… — Michael Parenti
The histories of the poor and the powerless are as important as those of their conquerors, their colonizers, their kings and queens. — Johnnetta B. Cole
Have you never been moved by poor men's fidelity, the image of you they form in their simple minds? Why should you always talk of… — Georges Bernanos
A good place to visit, but a poor place to stay. — Josh Billings
[T]he more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer . . . [taking] away… — Benjamin Franklin
When over long periods of human history I scrutinized the activity of the Jewish people, suddenly there arose up in me the fearful question whether… — Adolf Hitler
He who is only a traveler learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most interested when science reports… — Henry David Thoreau
You should never value people according to the size of their bank balances. Being poor does not make them bad and being rich does not… — Unknown Author
We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering. — Bill Gates

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