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Enter, holy pilgrims, receive this corner, for though this dwelling is poor,
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Enter, holy pilgrims, receive this corner, for though this dwelling is poor,
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If there's to be a movement to rescue our economy, to restore our humanity, and close the gap between rich and poor,
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I will slaughter cattle and make rich meats and sweetmeats and confections and assemble all the musicians and mimes and mountebanks and player-folk and, after providing flowers and perfumes and all manner sweet herbs, I will bid rich and poor,
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* Commitment to make this decade truly a decade of workers and the poor,
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'Some people say we shouldn't give alms to the poor,
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The same international solidarity that helped to end apartheid was needed to address the global divide between rich and poor,
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For profit mattered more than the lives of all the poor,
Louis Tikas 2002
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But my mother having heard that the young man was poor,
The Old Maid (53) 1997
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Even though my grandparents were in a minority, being poor,
President Remarks On Affirmative Action ITY National Archives 1995
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