It's no disgrace t'be poor, but it might as well be.

Frank McKinney Hubbard

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Poverty Dignity

Author

Frank McKinney Hubbard

Source

Short Furrows

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1911 1910s 20th century

Occupation

Journalist Writer

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United States

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Citation

Hubbard, Kin. "Short Furrows." News, c. 1911.

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We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.

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Sigmund Freud
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Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis
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Time
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Freud, Sigmund. Einführung in die Psychoanalyse [Introduction to Psychoanalysis]. 1915-1917, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, lecture 1. Lecture series.

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Freud, Sigmund. Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis. W. W. Norton & Company, 1977, lecture 1.

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It would be hard to find a single instance of a direct assault by positive effort upon poverty, vice, and misery which has not either failed or, if it has not failed directly and entirely, has not entailed other evils greater than the one which it removed.

William Graham Sumner

Sociology

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Public policy Poverty

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William Graham Sumner
Source
Sociology
Medium
Essay
Genre
Sociology
Language
English
Time
1881 1880s 19th century
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Citation

Sumner, William Graham. "Sociology." The Princeton Review, May 1881.