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Please, sir, I want some more.

Charles Dickens

Oliver Twist

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Dickens, Charles. "Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress." Bentley's Miscellany. London: Richard Bentley, Feb. 1837, issue 1, ch. 2.

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Dickens, Charles. Oliver Twist. Penguin, 2003, ch. 2.

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

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Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Socrates

Quoted in Republic, by Plato

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Socrates. Quoted in Πολιτεία [Republic], written by Plato. c. 375 BCE.

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Socrates. Quoted in Republic, written by Plato, translated by Desmond Lee. Penguin Classics, 2007.

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If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me.

Jesus

Matthew 19:21

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Matthew 19:21).

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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

James Baldwin

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Baldwin, James. "Fifth Avenue, Uptown; A Letter from Harlem." Esquire, July 1960.

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Wherever there's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there.

Tom Joad

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The Grapes of Wrath

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The Grapes of Wrath. Directed by John Ford. 20th Century Fox, 1940.

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Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.

James Baldwin

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Baldwin, James. "The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy." Esquire, 1 May 1961.

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It is a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself at last genuinely down and out. You have talked so often of going to the dogs—and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them, and you can stand it. It takes off a lot of anxiety.

George Orwell

Down and Out in Paris and London

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Orwell, George. Down and Out in Paris and London. Victor Gollancz, 1933, ch. 3.

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Unfortunately, many Americans live on the outskirts of hope—some because of their poverty, and some because of their color, and all too many because of both. Our task is to help replace their despair with opportunity. This administration today, here and now, declares unconditional war on poverty in America.

Lyndon B. Johnson

1964 State of the Union

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Johnson, Lyndon B. "State of the Union Address." Joint congress meeting. 8 Jan. 1964, US Capital Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Give me neither poverty nor riches.

Proverbs 30:8

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Proverbs 30:8).

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I've been rich, and I've been poor. Rich is better.

Beatrice Kaufman

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Kaufman, Beatrice. Quoted in "The Post's New Yorker." Written by Leonard Lyons. The Washington Post, 12 May 1937, quote p. 13.

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The worst kind of shame is that caused by parsimony or poverty.

Livy

Ab Urbe Condita

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Livy. Ab urbe condita [From the Founding of the City]. c. 9 BC, bk. 34, ch. 4, sect. 13.

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Livy. Rome and the Mediterranean: History of Rome from Its Foundation, books 31-45, translated by Henry Bettenson. Penguin Classics, 1976, bk. 34, ch. 4, sect. 13.

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Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.

George Orwell

Down and Out in Paris and London

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Orwell, George. Down and Out in Paris and London. Victor Gollancz, 1933, ch. 3.

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Poverty is a lot like childbirth-you know it is going to hurt before it happens, but you'll never know how much until you experience it.

J.K. Rowling

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Rowling, J. K. Mail on Sunday. 16 June 2002.

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Poverty anywhere constitutes a danger to prosperity everywhere.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Roosevelt, Franklin Delano. Address to Conference of International Labor Organization. Conference of International Labor Organization. 17 May 1944, Washington, DC, USA.

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I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.

Benjamin Franklin

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Franklin, Benjamin. "On the Price of Corn, and Management of the Poor." The London Chronicle, 27 Nov. 1766 - 29 Nov. 1766.

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Franklin, Benjamin. "On the Price of Corn, and Management of the Poor." Benjamin Franklin: The Autobiography and Other Writings. Bantam Classic, 2008.

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