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 EliotTag: knowledge work hope memory poverty
Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
Herman MelvilleTag: 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 KingsolverThere is no Them. There are only facets of Us.
John GreenTag: 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 NearTag: poverty
They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar
Henry David ThoreauTag: 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 CampbellTag: 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 HitchensTag: 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 StaffordTag: children poverty advocacy
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