The rich aren’t paying for luxury – they’re paying for basic humanity.
– Lindy West
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- Real change is slow, hard, and imperceptible. – Lindy West
- Feminism is really just the long slow realization that the things you love hate you. – Lindy West
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- Paying the high cost of education is better than paying the high price of ignorance. – Matshona Dhliwayo
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- The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It’s followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again. – Nora Ephron
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- Three things are neededFor humanity to co-exist:Truth, peace and basic needs.Everything else -Is irrelevant. – Suzy Kassem
- HAPPINESS IS A BASIC RIGHT OF HUMANITY…BE HAPPY REGARDLESS OF CIRCUMSTANCES! – Lola Faye Arnold
- I don’t want to save the world, I just want to inspire it. – Lindy Lewis
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- The middle class were invented to give the poor hope; the poor, to make the rich feel special; the rich, to humble the middle class. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Rich people were not rich if there were no poor. – Zain Baloch
- It is the consumers who make poor people rich and rich people poor. – Ludwig von Mises
- You don’t get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion. – L Ron Hubbard
- The rich control our politics to a huge extend. In return they get tax cuts and deregulation. It’s been and is an amazing ride for the rich. – Jeffrey D Sachs
- Leaders will love to be poor and see their people rich, than to be rich and see their people poor. This is their mission. – Israelmore Ayivor
- The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead. – Ann Landers
- Do you know why the rich get richer? It’s is because they spend time with other rich people. – Stephen Richards
- You could become rich if you were born financially poor, But you can’t stay rich if you are poor minded. – Rafaa Khiari
- A community or a country is poor or rich, depending upon who lives on the waterfronts – the poor or the rich! – Sandeep Sahajpal
- Ideas doesn’t make anyone rich, it is what you use it to do that makes you rich. – Michael Bassey Johnson
- Money makes a poor for few days rich. Education makes people rich without asking for money. – Alin Sav
- If there are people at once rich and content, be assured that they are content because they know how to be so, not because they are rich – Charles Wagner
- I know he’s rich. He knows he’s rich, too. – Lorraine Hansberry
- …what is the use of making everybody rich if the rich themselves are miserable? – Bertrand Russell
- Charity is appeased when some rich person gives money to the poor while justice asks why one person can be that rich when so many are poor. – Ronald Rolheiser
- You can’t change things. That’s life. Poor stays poor, rich says rich, and those two, they will never meet. – Antonia Michaelis
- It was a rich place: as rich as plumcake. – CS Lewis
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- Every time the rich ignore the poor, the rich become poorer! Poorest is the person who has all the means to help others but chooses not to! – Mehmet Murat ildan