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  • And you may not know it, my friends, but it is estimated that we spend $500,000 to kill each enemy soldier, while we spend only fifty-three dollars for each person classified as poor, and much of that fifty-three dollars goes for salaries to people that are not poor. So I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor, and attack it as such.

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    Posted: 10 Nov 2014 at 10:59 AM
    Posted By: Puck
  • As long as there is a lower class, I’m in it. As long as there is a criminal element, I’m of it. As long as there’s a soul in prison, I am not free.

    Speaker: Eugene Debs
    Source: If This Isn't Nice, What Is?
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    Posted: 27 Jun 2014 at 2:50 PM
    Posted By: Puck
  • Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.

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    Posted: 02 Jul 2009 at 11:18 AM
    Posted By: dirid51
  • It has been estimated that in ceremonial of this kind, salutes to royalty and other distinguished personages, the opening and closing of harbours, guns fired at daybreak and sunset from ships and fortresses throughout the civilized world, some 150,000 cannons are uselessly discharged every twenty-four hours. At six francs a time this amounts to 900,000 francs a day, or 300 millions a year. A detail in passing. Meanwhile the poor continue to die of hunger.

    Speaker: Victor Hugo
    Source: Les Miserables
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    Posted: 18 Mar 2009 at 8:17 PM
    Posted By: Puck
    Tags: poverty, wealth
  • “There is no act of faith more beautiful than the generosity of the very poor.”

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    Posted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:57 PM
    Posted By: Puck