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I pointed out to you the wretchedness of modern man -- three million child slaves in the United States, without whose labor profits would not be possible, and fifteen million under-fed, ill-clothed, and worse-housed people.
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Children, who go to bed hungry each night, who are denied the fullness of health, who are ill-housed, ill-clothed, who do not have a chance for a decent education, whose opportunities in life are limited because the resources of nations are squandered in unnecessary wars based on lies.
Rep. Dennis Kucinich: The Greatest Casualties of this Long War are the Children of the World Rep. Dennis Kucinich 2010
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Children, who go to bed hungry each night, who are denied the fullness of health, who are ill-housed, ill-clothed, who do not have a chance for a decent education, whose opportunities in life are limited because the resources of nations are squandered in unnecessary wars based on lies.
Rep. Dennis Kucinich: The Greatest Casualties of this Long War are the Children of the World 2010
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Children, who go to bed hungry each night, who are denied the fullness of health, who are ill-housed, ill-clothed, who do not have a chance for a decent education, whose opportunities in life are limited because the resources of nations are squandered in unnecessary wars based on lies.
Rep. Dennis Kucinich: The Greatest Casualties of this Long War are the Children of the World 2010
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His dream was to never again see the nation he loved, the United States of America, with one-third of its people: out of work, underfed, poorly housed, and ill-clothed; the situation he had inherited when he first took his oath of office in March, 1933.
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You had a third of the country that was ill-housed, ill-clothed, unemployed.
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You, you had a third of the country that was ill-housed, ill-clothed, unemployed.
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Unlike the hardened Arab fighters he'd dealt with before, these were weak, nervous, ill-clothed and inexperienced climbers.
Guantanamo Justice? 2008
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The elderly were the poorest demographic in this country, ill-clothed and ill-fed.
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The class of 1932 would look out a nation in mired in depression; a nation ill-fed, ill-clothed, and ill-housed.
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