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[Albert] Camus' was born in Algeria of French nationality, and was assimilated into the French colony, although the French colonists rejected him absolutely because of his poverty.

[Albert Camus] positions are sensed. So, naturally, those intellectuals who don't have that experience have difficulty in comprehending it. But I think it made Camus more tolerant because he had already seen both sides of things when the others had only ever seen one. They imagine poverty, but they don't know what it is. In fact they've got a sort of bad conscience about the working classes.

All plenty which is not my God is poverty to me.

Although they are some of the hardest working folks I know, rural Americans earn, on average, $11,000 less than their urban counterparts each year. And they are more likely to live in poverty.

And makes me poor indeed.

America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.

A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members.

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.

America stands as a beacon of hope and the possibility of a better life - but it is also a nation where nearly 1 in 4 children live in poverty.

And sometimes people don't realize that 90 percent of the persistent poverty counties are located in rural America.

A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.

A Nuns Life: Chastity, poverty, and obedience. Wait, chastity?" BUMPER STICKER

A pacifism which can see the cruelties only of occasional military warfare and is blind to the continuous cruelties of our social system is worthless.

A poor man defended himself when charged with stealing food to appease the cravings of hunger, saying, the cries of the stomach silenced those of the conscience.

A poverty that is universal may be cheerfully borne; it is an individual poverty that is painful and humiliating.

And when you're poor, you grow up fast.

Anfering sex for money is not a profession that glorifies women; it is a profession born of desperation, poverty, alieatioin, and loneliness.

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

Any time you have poverty, joblessness, sub-par public schools, and a lack of opportunity, you're going to have a high rate of crime.

A person born with an instinct for poverty.

A religious ought to dread more being afraid of poverty than experiencing it.

A rising economic tide is bad for people who live off of the poverty of others.

As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.

As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.

As General Eisenhower discovered, it is easier to end the Cold War or stamp out poverty than to master this devilish pastime.

As a remedy against all ills - poverty, sickness, and melancholy - only one thing is absolutely necessary: a liking for work

As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg

As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.

As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism.

a society in which there is widespread economic insecurity can turn freedom into a barren and vapid right for millions of people.

A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth.

A time of famine and poverty will come and the people as a whole as well as every individual in it will suffer.

A whole generation of Americans will retire in poverty instead of prosperity, because they simply are not preparing for retirement now.

At the current $5.15 an hour, the federal minimum wage has become a poverty wage. A full-time worker with one child lives below the official poverty line.

A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.

Ay! idleness! the rich folks never fail To find some reason why the poor deserve Their miseries.

Better to live hundred years as a millionaire, than one week in poverty!

Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks

Being born into poverty does not mean you are condemned to spend the rest of your life in poverty.

Be not anxious to avoid poverty. In this way the wealth of the universe may be securely invested.

Better poverty without care, than riches with.

Beggars can't be choosers.

Being in the neighborhood and the poverty stricken environment that I grew up in, I took a detour. I gravitated towards some of the individuals that did a lot of the wrong things with the right intentions.

Bhagavad Gita is very relevant to modern times when you see things like global warming, climate chaos, changing weather patterns, natural disasters like hurricane Katrina, extreme poverty, economic disparities, social injustice, war, and terrorism - these are the projection of a collective consciousness that's in disarray.

Blacks are about seven times more likely to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty than whites.

Bush senior used to say that we have more will than wallet. So he urged the country to attack poverty with a thousand points of light, none of which could be eaten.

Boasting is always an advertisement of poverty.

Boredom is the keynote of poverty — of all its indignities, it is perhaps the hardest of all to live with — for where there is no money there is no change of any kind, not of scene or of routine. To be able to break out of its dark brown sameness.

Both poverty and wealth are excellent things, because they are extremes, but the middle ground is damaging to the soul.

Bobby Kennedy is so concerned with poverty because he didn't have any as a kid.