Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowledge enter and the inner sanctuary is hope.
George EliotTags: knowledge work hope memory poverty
Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
Herman MelvilleTags: poverty
In Kilanga, people knew nothing of things they might have had - a Frigidaire? a washer-dryer combination? Really, they'd sooner imagine a tree that could pull up its feet and go bake bread. It didn't occur to them to feel sorry for themselves.
Barbara KingsolverTags: happiness africa poverty
There is no Them. There are only facets of Us.
John GreenTags: brotherhood-of-man poverty us them
Poverty without a people's government looks like hopelessness, but to see poverty in organized communities is to see relief-in-progress.
Holly NearTags: poverty
They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar
Henry David ThoreauTags: society class poverty architecture
They [Harvard academia] liked the poor, but didn't like the smell of the poor.
Chris HedgesWhen giving money to the amputated, you must put it directly into their pockets.
Greg CampbellTags: poverty blood-diamonds shocking
MT [Mother Teresa] was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God. She spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction.
Christopher HitchensTags: poverty mother-teresa birth-control empowerment-of-women poverty-alleviation
I spend half my time comforting the afflicated, and the other half afflicting the comfortable.
Wess StaffordTags: children poverty advocacy
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