It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country.
Paul FarmerTags: science poverty medicine rights
As usual, in every scheme that worsens the position of the poor, it is the poor who are invoked as beneficiaries.
Vandana ShivaFear of the mob is a superstitious fear. It is based on the idea that there is some mysterious, fundamental difference between rich and poor, as though they were two different races, like Negroes and white men. But in reality there is no such difference. The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else, and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit. Change places, and handy dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief? Everyone who has mixed on equal terms with the poor knows this quite well. But the trouble is that intelligent, cultivated people, the very people who might be expected to have liberal opinions, never do mix with the poor. For what do the majority of educated people know about poverty?
George OrwellTags: equality rich capitalism poverty communism socialism marxism orwell
People who don't have much get ugly about giving up the little they have left.
Andrew VachssThe image titled “The Homeless, Psalm 85:10,” featured on the cover of ELEMENTAL, can evoke multiple levels of response. They may include the spiritual in the form of a studied meditation upon the multidimensional qualities of the painting itself; or an extended contemplation of the scripture in the title, which in the King James Bible reads as follows: “Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.” The painting can also inspire a physical response in the form of tears as it calls to mind its more earth-bound aspects; namely, the very serious plight of those who truly are homeless in this world, whether born into such a condition, or forced into it by poverty or war.
AberjhaniTags: art compassion justice scripture mercy poverty homelessness culture interpretation paintings
You can't eat straight A's.
Maxine Hong KingstonTags: school poverty expectations
Society was cut in two: those who had nothing united in common envy; those who had anything united in common terror.
Alexis de TocquevilleAs long as there is still one beggar around, there will still be myth.
Walter BenjaminFor Ragamuffins, God's name is Mercy. We see our darkness as a prized possession because it drives us into the heart of God. Without mercy our darkness would plunge us into despair - for some, self-destruction. Time alone with God reveals the unfathomable depths of the poverty of the spirit. We are so poor that even our poverty is not our own: It belongs to the mysterium tremendum of a loving God.
Brennan ManningTags: god mercy prayer poverty spirit ragamuffin
The ideal-worker standard and norm of work devotion push mothers to the margins of economic life. And a society that marginalizes its mothers impoverishes its children. That is why the paradigmatic poor family in the United States is a single mother and her child.
Joan C. WilliamsTags: children work economics poverty mothers
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