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"I have seen $300 million presidential palaces and $350 million cathedrals in the midst of ill-health, poverty and destitution in various African countries."

— Olikoye Ransome-Kuti

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"Only $12 out of every $100 contributed by donors eventually gets to HIV patients in most African countries."

"Primary health care is the foundation on which an effective national health system must be built."

"The continuation of the conspiracy of silence during what is a monumental catastrophe is no less than criminal."

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We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

Doris Lessing The Golden Notebook (1962)

It is better to be poor and walk in integrity than to be stupid and speak lies.

Solomon

If a poor person envies a rich person, he is no better than the rich person.

Leo Tolstoy

The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.

Emil Cioran The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

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