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Poverty, in the end, is a state of dispossession and deprivation in which people are not only deprived of their income, but also of opportunity, empowerment and, most important, dignity.
James Gustave Speth
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James Gustave Speth
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 4
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Orangeburg
South Carolina
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