One of the great failings of the American education system (in our view) is that young people can graduate from university without any understanding of poverty at home or abroad.
Nicholas D. KristofTags: education service poverty
I need the money, people are very coy about money, and the ladies arent just coy, they are sci fi about money…
…people ask, well, dont sweet things happen? yes, indeed, many sweet things, but sweet doesnt keep you from dying, making love doesnt keep you from dying unless you get paid, writing doesnt keep you from dying unless you get paid, being wise doesnt keep you from dying unless you get paid, facts are facts, being poor makes you face facts which also does not keep you from dying.
Tags: poverty
You can't change things. That's life. Poor stays poor, rich says rich, and those two, they will never meet.
Antonia MichaelisTags: poverty
But then it is easy, too easy, to sermonize about the dangers of paternalism and the need to take responsibility for our own lives, from the comfort of our couch in our safe and sanitary home. Aren't we, those who live in the rich world, the constant beneficiaries of a paternalism now so thoroughly embedded into the system that we hardly notice it?
Abhijit V. BanerjeeTags: poverty paternalism skeptics
Everyday 25,000 people die from poverty and hunger. And we have forgotten that they are also human.
M.F. MoonzajerTags: human poverty hunger 000 25
People of civilized countenance made much of exposing the soft underbellies of their psyche - effete and sensitive were the brands of finer breeding. It was easy for them, safe, and that was the whole point, after all: a statement of coddled opulence that burned the throats of the poor more than any ostentatious show of wealth.
Steven EriksonTags: insightful survival poverty social-norms malazan social-status steven-erikson malazan-book-of-the-fallen deadhouse-gates social-stagnation book-fo-the-fallen
Does affirmative action place minority students in colleges where they're likely to fail while depriving other applicants of the chance to attend the most challenging schools where they are capable of succeeding? Does rent control drive up the cost of housing, depriving property owners of the same opportunity to profit as any other investor while driving down the quality and quantity of the housing stock? Do minimum wage laws reduce the number of entry-level jobs, making it harder to escape from poverty? Because compassion, by its nature, subordinates doing good to feeling good, these are questions the warm-hearted rarely pursue.
William VoegeliTags: compassion poverty moral-psychology
How starved they seemed for ordinary kindness
Rohinton MistryTags: kindness sadness poverty starving starve
Poverty is restriction and as such, it is the greatest injustice you can perpetrate upon yourself.
Stuart WildeTags: money poverty wealth-creation abundance-creation
No matter what they say in the conferences and symposiums about poverty and hunger in the world. At the end, they are the first one forgetting us.
M.F. MoonzajerTags: poverty hunger poor conferences
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