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Poverty is an artificial, external imposition on a human being; it is not innate in a human being. And since it is external, it can be removed. It is just a question of doing it.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

I believe that poverty is often the result of inappropriate behavior - out-of-wedlock births, dropping out of school, crime and drugs - which should not be rewarded. But often it isn't, and common decency requires that we take care of the least of these.

Poverty is restriction and as such, it is the greatest injustice you can perpetrate upon yourself.

You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.

Poverty is not inevitable. It is a human ill that we can fight if we decide to do so together.

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.