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Discussing Issues On Poverty, Through Blogs

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... For 60 days I've been posting Blog Action Day - Poverty - where over 9000 bloggers have agreed to discuss, explore and seek solutions to poverty. (Even the Poverty conversation on their blog

My decision to support Money Quotes on this blog. But, inevitably I got more interested in the topic and in learning something about Poorand 150 Poverty Quotes in the larger collection of quotes on the poor, Here are a dozen to get you started.

  1. Dwight D. Eisenhower, who said in 1953, "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed"
  2. Many politicians, as a matter of fact, had something to say of poverty - from 
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  4. There are those who devote their lives to the poor, "There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness; and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much" -- Colin Powell, "Terrorism really flourishes in areas of poverty, despair and hopelessness, where people see no future"
  5. And in the end, it really doesn't matter whether we are rich or poor, "Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king" -- 

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