Quote by James Baldwin
Anyone who has struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensiv

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

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Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be hurled into that void, within which, like the earth before the Word was spoken, the foundations of society are hidden. – James Baldwin

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James Joyce is right about history being a nightmare– but it may be that nightmare from which no one can awaken. People are trapped in history and history in trapped in them. – James Baldwin

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The poor will always be with you. John 12: 8 – Bible

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Society comprises two classes: those who have more food than appetite, and those who have more appetite than food. – Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Chamfort)

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There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. – Mahatma Gandhi

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To a man with an empty stomach food is God. – Gandhi

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