Civil society groups led by stellar activists have saved lakes and trees and fought for the poor and dispossessed.

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There is no doubt that Pentecostalism first took off among the poor and the dispossessed and that it offers some dubious consolations.

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To frame the debate as one of rich-and-entitled versus poor-and-dispossessed is to both miss the point and further inflame an already incendiary environment.

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By the mid-1950s, in fact, the townships were home to a majority of the country's black population, but they were such rough and rowdy places that many of the rural dispossessed chose not to join the urban rush too weak or too poor, too unskilled and too uneducated, too tired and too frightened to be comfortable in them.

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