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Quote by Gustavo Gutiérrez
Poverty is death, in the last analysis.
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The quote presents poverty as more than a lack of money. “In the last analysis” means that, when everything is considered, poverty amounts to death—or reduces life so severely that the distinction becomes hard to maintain.
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