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179 Do not talk about poverty; do not investigate it, or concern yourself with it.
180 Never mind what its causes are; you have nothing to do with them.
181 What concerns you is the cure. Do not spend your time in charitable work,
182 or charity movements; all charity only tends to perpetuate the wretchedness
183 it aims to eradicate.
184 I do not say that you should be hard hearted or unkind, and refuse to hear
185 the cry of need; but you must not try to eradicate poverty in any of the
186 conventional ways. Put poverty behind you, and put all that pertains to it
187 behind you, and "make good."
188 Get rich; that is the best way you can help the poor. And you cannot hold
189 the mental image which is to make you rich if you fill your mind with
190 pictures of poverty. Do not read books or papers which give circumstantial
191 accounts of the wretchedness of the tenement dwellers, of the horrors of
192 child labor, and so on. Do not read anything which fills your mind with
193 gloomy images of want and suffering.
194 You cannot help the poor in the least by knowing about these things; and the
195 wide-spread knowledge of them does not tend at all to do away with
196 poverty .
197 What tends to do away with poverty is not the getting of pictures of poverty
198 into your mind, but getting pictures of wealth into the minds of the poor.
199 You are not deserting the poor in their misery when you refuse to allow your
200 mind to be filled with pictures of that misery.
201 Poverty can be done away with, not by increasing the number of well to do
202 people who think about poverty, but by increasing the number of poor
203 people who purpose with faith to get rich.
204 The poor do not need charity; they need inspiration. Charity only sends them
205 a loaf of bread to keep them alive in their wretchedness, or gives them an
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