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• "Poor-bashing means ignoring facts and repeating stereotypes about people who are poor."
  -- Jean Swanson
  

  "The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied...but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing." -- John Berger

  "Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor." -- James A. Baldwin

  "Poverty is the worst form of violence." -- Mohandas Gandhi

  "Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness." -- GB Shaw

  "You cannot feed the hungry on statistics." -- David Lloyd George

  "The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time." -- Willen De Kooning

  "When I feed the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor are hungry, they call me a communist." -- Dom Helder Camara, Archbishop of Recife, Brazil

  "A pot of soup or a bowl of chili is definitely an organizing tool." -- Sheila Baxter

  "Poverty for many is a life sentence with no hope of parole." -- Pat Capponi

  "The law in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets and to steal bread." -- Anatole France

  "Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice." -- Nelson Mandela

  "Charity is commendable; everyone should be charitable. But justice aims to create a social order in which, if individuals choose not to be charitable, people still don’t go hungry, unschooled or sick without care. Charity depends on the vicissitudes of whim and personal wealth; justice depends on commitment instead of circumstance. Faith-based charity provides crumbs from the table; faith-based justice offers a place at the table." -- Bill Moyers

  "The day that hunger is eradicated from the earth, there will be the greatest spiritual explosion the world has ever known. Humanity cannot imagine the joy that will burst into the world on the day of that great revolution." -- Federico García Lorca

  "It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world." -- Mary Wollestonecraft

  "Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral." -- Paulo Freire

  ""So much has been destroyed, I have cast my lot with those who, age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world." -- Adrienne Rich

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