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It is only through grass roots organizing that we can uproot this repressive system that loots our national treasury and pauperizes the population while spreading death and destruction in the name of imperialism.

Say What You Will About Cynthia McKinney… « Antiwar.com Blog 2008

The idea that a Republican Senator would get the pass that Reid's being given just utterly beggars -- nay, bankrupts and pauperizes -- what remains of my youthful credulity.

Small Steps, Big Change Steven Barnes 2010

When a family has been hopelessly dependent so long that self-respect and initiative are wholly gone, it seems useless to attempt to galvanize it into activity or respectability, and when a group of such families pauperizes a neighborhood, heroic measures become necessary.

Society Its Origin and Development Henry Kalloch Rowe

Properly administered charity is a helpful means of temporary relief, but if it becomes permanent it pauperizes.

Society Its Origin and Development Henry Kalloch Rowe

There is only one drawback for the cigarette manufacturer, his consumer is too short lived; the cigarette devitalizes, pauperizes, and destroys.

"Say Fellows—" Fifty Practical Talks with Boys on Life's Big Issues Wade C. Smith

A person who pauperizes a healthy young man because he is sentimentally overimpressed with an immediate difficulty has lost sight of the duration of the beggar's life.

Public Opinion Walter Lippmann 1931

But giving one's money away does not solve the problem; it pauperizes the recipient and delays the evolution of new conditions in which present injustices would be corrected.

Dennison Grant: a Novel of To-day Robert J. C. Stead 1919

"But it is a mistake, all the same," Gifford went on; "it is unbusiness-like, to say nothing of being bad for his people to have the burden of support lifted from them; it pauperizes them spiritually."

John Ward, Preacher Margaret Wade Campbell Deland 1901

It pauperizes, belittles, and dwindles men into helpless sucklings.

Africa and the American Negro...Addresses and Proceedings of the Congress on Africa Held Under the Auspices of the Stewart Missionary Foundation for Africa of Gammon Theological Seminary in Connection with the Cotton States and International Exposition December 13-15, 1895. John Wesley Edward 1896

But charity of the kind that pauperizes is furthest from their scheme.

XVII. The Street Arab 1890