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"Poverty is the frontier we have to be able to cross."

Poverty,

"There is no reason to have problems between country and country, between government and government, when there is a separation of powers."

Government, Country, Problems, Reason

"This is not the Chile we want to build."

Want,

"My obligation as president, and what I promise the country, is that the courts will be able to do their job free of all pressure."

Nation, Country, Job, Obligation, President

"We have obligations towards the innocent, the dead, towards the living, towards our children and their children."

Family, Children, Living

"We Chileans have to be able to understand that in a democracy institutions must function freely and with sovereignty."

Democracy,

"Let's not interfere with justice... Let's let justice speak."

Justice,

"Clearly it is better that, when someone is wanted by the international police, and this person travels, and a country knows about it, that country reports the fact."

Nation, Country, Fact, Police

"It's important to see how we can advance in healing wounds."

Healing, Wounds

Exlpore more Poverty quotes

"The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

Poverty, Argument, Crime, Poor

"When you have a spiritual foundation, you look at poverty differently then."

Dennis Banks, American Educator

Poverty, Spiritual

"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."

John Berger, English Artist

Poverty, Priorities, Rest, Result

"Dr. Rice went well beyond offering a helping hand - she went so far as to shed tears and share hugs with those who, in a matter of just a few hours, had lost everything to the rising floodwaters."

Jo Bonner, American Politician

Poverty, Hugs, Tears

"There's no unemployment in squatter cities. Everyone works. One-sixth of humanity is there. It's soon going to be more than that."

Stewart Brand, American Author

Poverty, Cities, Humanity, Unemployment

"Poverty makes you sad as well as wise."

Bertolt Brecht, German Poet

Poverty,

"Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse."

Bertolt Brecht, German Poet

Poverty,

"You see, the poverty program for the last five years have been buy-off programs."

H. Rap Brown, American Activist

Poverty, Years

"The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty."

H. Rap Brown, American Activist

Poverty,

"Hunger makes a thief of any man."

Pearl S. Buck, American Novelist

Poverty, Hunger, Man