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"Because feeding the nation should never mean living in poverty."

— Joy Barcoma

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"If we want young people to choose farming, then it should be a livable profession. One that offers fair income, security, access to land, technology, education, and dignity," she stressed.

"Social justice, environmental justice is also human justice. And so we must make sure that every law we pass is a right for every person on Earth."

"I’m grateful for the opportunities Miss Earth has given me. I was joined by incredible and beautiful women from across the globe."

"We must first dignify farming and not romanticize it as sacrifice alone, but recognize it as skilled, essential, and nation-building work,"

"being a farmer is also something that children aspire to be."

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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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