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Explore inspiring words from influential figures like Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, the Dalai Lama, Muhammad Yunus, and Martin Luther King Jr. Discover their perspectives on poverty, its eradication, and the pursuit of a just society.

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00:00Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of justice.
00:06Like closing the gap between the rich and the poor.
00:10Nelson Mandela
00:14The future depends on what you do today.
00:18Mahatma Gandhi
00:22The true measure of a society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members.
00:28Dalai Lama
00:32Poverty is a social disease.
00:35It is a disease that can be cured.
00:38Muhammad Yunus
00:43Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
00:47Martin Luther King Jr.
00:52It isn't enough to talk about peace.
00:55One must believe in it.
00:58And it isn't enough to believe in it.
01:01One must work at it.
01:04Eleanor Roosevelt
01:07When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life, now that I am old
01:12I know that it is.
01:17Oscar Wilde
01:18He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
01:23Friedrich Nietzsche
01:26It is the truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want
01:33of a wife.
01:33Jane Austen
01:48Annual income
01:55Leo Tolstoy
01:58To love one's children is natural, but to love the children of others is an act of love.
02:05Victor Hugo
02:08If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
02:13Mother Teresa
02:17Poverty is not just lack of income, but also lack of capabilities.
02:22Amartya Son
02:26If a man tries to be great, he will be.
02:30John Steinbeck
02:34It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not
02:40have lived at all.
02:42J.K. Rowling
02:46The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe.
02:51You have to make it fall.
02:53Che Guevara
02:57The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of admiration rather than upon attainment.
03:05Aristotle
03:08I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under
03:15the pretense of taking care of them.
03:18Thomas Jefferson
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