Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient
Milton BerleStichwörter: inspirational truth poverty
We have written too many books about love and so few about hunger and poverty; that is why we need to wake up and leave stupidity behind.
M.F. MoonzajerStichwörter: books love stupidity poverty hunger written
You see, it is my passionately held belief that the right to possess property is at best a contingent one. When disparities become too great, a superior right, that to life, outweighs the right to property. Ergo, the very poor have the right to steal from the very rich.
Mohsin HamidStichwörter: life politics wealth capitalism poverty crime rights stealing
Governments neither help us to get out of poverty and hunger, nor let us die. It is time that we must pick one.
M.F. MoonzajerStichwörter: die poverty hunger help starvation governments
The Andrians were the first of the islanders to refuse Themistocles' demand for money. He had put it to them that they would be unable to avoid paying, because the Athenians had the support of two powerful deities, one called Persuasion and the other Compulsion.
The Andrians had replied that Athens was lucky to have two such useful gods, who were obviously responsible for her wealth and greatness; unfortunately, they themselves, in their small
Stichwörter: poverty persuasion compulsion andrians athenians
Well, honey, it’s capitalism that brings out the meanness and greed,” says I. “Our founding fathers did a decent job of framing our democracy. They wrote the Constitution and added a Bill of Rights that intended for people of all classes to enjoy the freedoms the Constitution offers. But capitalism came along without a constitution or a bill of rights and the industrialists grabbed unrestricted power. The capitalists wrote their own ‘Declaration of Capitalism’.” — Mother Jones
Jerry AshStichwörter: social democracy capitalism economics military poverty labor industry slavery political unions mining great-depression sweatshops industrial-revolution miners robber-barons child-labor mill-workers yellow-journalism
Democracy is supposed to be ‘of the people, by the people and for the people’. Capitalism is ‘of the capitalist, for the capitalist’. Period.
Jerry AshStichwörter: social democracy capitalism economics military poverty labor industry slavery political unions mining great-depression sweatshops industrial-revolution miners robber-barons child-labor mill-workers yellow-journalism
Honey, it isn’t democracy that runs this country. Capitalism rules. It does no good to reason with the capitalists or their politicians. This is a class war. We have to stir up the American people, the lower class. Some of the better-off lower class do show some sympathy for us when they’re smacked with the facts. And when they voice themselves collectively, good things happen.” — Mother Jones
Jerry AshStichwörter: social democracy capitalism economics military poverty labor industry slavery political unions mining great-depression sweatshops industrial-revolution miners robber-barons child-labor mill-workers yellow-journalism
Go home now,” says I. “Keep away from the saloons. Save your money. You are going to need it.”
“What are we going to need it for?” asks a voice from the crowd.
“For guns and ammunition,” says I.
Stichwörter: social democracy capitalism economics military poverty labor industry slavery political unions mining great-depression sweatshops industrial-revolution miners robber-barons child-labor mill-workers yellow-journalism
What do you see out there?” I ask.
“Pittsburgh,” he replies. Now I laugh. “No, young man. What you see is hell with the lid taken off.” — Mother Jones
Stichwörter: social democracy capitalism economics military poverty labor industry slavery political unions mining great-depression sweatshops industrial-revolution miners robber-barons child-labor mill-workers yellow-journalism
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