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There is something to be said for people who have to work hard, be creative, produce what they have with little - or no - means. Those of us from poor homes have the advantage of thinking for ourselves and of knowing that when times get hard, things could always be worse.
The American Dream, coupled with government subsidies of utilities and cheap consumer goods courtesy of slave labour somewhere else, has kept the poor huddled masses from rising up.
If you don't have a bed, or a dresser or a wall, or a book or a toy you are oppressed. An African American in a white world. A Jew in a Christian world. A gypsy. A Native American. A Chinese American. Let's say, you were born deprived.
The poor don't live in functional market economies as the rest of us do, but in political economies where corruption and broken systems extend from local government to moneylenders.
Poverty is a lot like childbirth - you know it is going to hurt before it happens, but you'll never know how much until you experience it.
The poor too often turn away unheard, From hearts that shut against them with a sound That will be heard in heaven.
To be poor, and to seem poor, is a certain method never to rise.
The Untouchables, in modern times, had won the useless right of being touched by the high caste, but they remained the poorest in the city. Every
The oppressor is truly repressed. Their poverty is existential, often surrounded by an abundance of material goods. (Leonardo Boff, p. 179)
Poverty is not simply having no money - it is isolation, vulnerability, humiliation and mistrust ...
Poor is what people become, not what they are born to be.
Poverty is a curse, it covers everything good inside of you from the outside world and gives you only one name called humiliation.
grievances of the lowest classes mingled with
Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.
It hurts me to hear the tone in which the poor are condemned as "shiftless," or "having a pauper spirit," just as it would if a crowd mocked at a child for its weakness, or laughed at a lame man because he could not run, or a blind man because he stumbled.
We are all poor in respect to a thousand savage comforts, though surrounded by luxuries ... for our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them.
Like navigation markings in unknown waters, definitions of poverty need to be distinctive and unambiguous. A definition that is not precise is as bad as no definition at all.
He fate of the poor both locally and globally will to a grave extent determine the quality of life for those who are lucky enough to have class privilege. Repudiating exploitation by word and deed is a gesture of solidarity with the poor.
Poverty without a people's government looks like hopelessness, but to see poverty in organized communities is to see relief-in-progress.
Poverty, labor, and calamity are not without their luxuries, which the rich, the indolent, and the fortunate in vain seek for.
All that the downtrodden can do is go on hoping. After every disappointment they must find fresh reason for hope.
A person born with an instinct for poverty.
It was strange how it was always the poor who picked us up [hitchhiking] ... They dwelled beneath poverty lines and were undereducated, but they were ... more civilized than the finely bred..for there is no demographic that has a sharper instinct for empathy than the downtrodden.
Poverty arises and persists where corruption is endemic and enterprise is stifled, where basic fairness provided by the rule of law is absent. In such circumstances, poverty is an assault against human dignity, and in that assault lies the natural seed of human anger
What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires - how many aspirations after goodness and truth - how many noble thoughts, loving wishes toward our fellows, beautiful imaginings thou hast crushed under thy heel, without remorse or pause!
The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.
If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded.
Poverty is the deprivation of opportunity.
Poverty, the racial divide and social injustice do not impact only those who suffer most visibly. Alleviating poverty and injustice is a responsibility we must never forget or abandon.
I grew up in an underprivileged home.
The life of an unenlightened person is filled with suffering.
Poverty is not deprivation, it is isolation.
One thing that you consistently see everywhere is that the poor and the under-represented are always the ones who are going to suffer the most and get the short end of the stick.
The poor are the blacks of Europe.
There are people much less fortunate than us, and I don't mean people hungry sleeping in the streets either.
There's no nobility in poverty.
There are so many different ways to be poor,Poor-- Zadie Smith
Poverty palls the most generous spirits; it cows industry, and casts resolution itself into despair.
Hey, baby, nobody suffers like the poor.
They don't know what poor is. They don't know that poverty is a sharp knife carving away at you. They don't know what it does to the body. To a mind.
He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
Today everything comes under the laws of competition and the survival of the fittest, where the powerful feed upon the powerless. As a consequence, masses of people find themselves excluded and marginalized: without work, without possibilities, without any means of escape.
Even the poorest among us deserves the dignity of equality.
An individual poor person is an isolated island by himself and herself. IT can end that isolation overnight.
at rude variance with the poverty of its surroundings.
Today it is very fashionable to talk about the poor. Unfortunately it is very unfashionable to talk with them.
The existence of poverty is the proof of an unjust and ill-organised society, and our public charities are but the first tardy awakening in the conscience of a robber.
The Good News of the gospel of grace cries out: We are all, equally, privileged but unentitled beggars at the door of God's mercy!
Poverty has a home in Africalike a quiet second skin.It may be the only place on earth where it is worn with unconscious dignity.
We can neither heal nor build if, on the one hand the rich in our society see the poor as hordes of irritants or if on the other hand the poor sit back, expecting charity. All of us must take responsibility for the upliftment of our conditions, prepared to give our best to the benefit of all
Poverty was a relationship, I thought, involving poor and rich people alike. To understand poverty, I needed to understand that relationship. This sent me searching for a process that bound poor and rich people together in mutual dependence and struggle. Eviction was such a process.
There seem to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be deprived of them.
23 The fallow ground of the poor would yield much food, but it is swept away through b injustice.
Like David Copperfield, I was born amidst poverty and grew up in poverty. I did not own shoes. I did not bathe in water from a tap. I did no know about forks and spoons.
The poorest people you meet are the discontent.
The underprivileged are byproduct of society's material progress.
Up for those who have no voice, for the justice of all who are dispossessed.
Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life.
[ Live 8 Concert, Mary Fitzgerald Square, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2 July 2005]
The poverty of the incapable, the distresses that come upon the imprudent, the starvation of the idle, and those shoulderings aside of the weak by the strong, which leave so many "in shallows and in miseries," are the decrees of a large, far-seeing benevolence.
Misery and poverty are so absolutely degrading, and exercise such
a paralysing effect over the nature of men, that no class is ever really conscious of its own suffering. They have to be told of it by other people, and they often entirely disbelieve them.
Rarely they rise by virtue's aid who lie plunged in the depth of helpless poverty.
The cruelties of property and privilege are always more ferocious than the revenges of poverty and oppression. For the one aims at perpetuating resented injustice, the other is merely a momentary passion soon appeased.
Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.
Those, who from an immoderate and false self-love, study to keep their humanity under, always take care, for their own sakes, to represent poverty to themselves, as something ridiculous, mean, and contemptible.
Today it is fashionable to talk about the poor. Unfortunately, it is not fashionable to talk with them.
Poverty is restriction and as such, it is the greatest injustice you can perpetrate upon yourself.
I was born poor, I have lived poor, I wish to die poor.
For the poor the whole world is a self-constituted critic; your smallest action is open to debate. No secret place of your soul is safe from invasion.
The poor are used to stifling any expression of their despair, because they must get on with life, with work, with the demands made of them day after day, hour after hour.
The poor are our brothers and sisters ... people in the world who need love, who need care, who have to be wanted.
Poverty is bitter, but it has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.
We need to remove unworthy from our vocabulary and replace it with hope and work.
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.
There is no worse material poverty, I am keen to stress, than the poverty which prevents people from earning their bread and deprives them of the dignity of work.
Everywhere in the world the industrial regime tends to make the unorganized or unorganizable individual, the pauper, into the victim of a kind of human sacrifice offered to the gods of civilization.
Every condition exists," Martin Luther King Jr. once wrote, "simply because someone profits by its existence. This economic exploitation is crystallized in the slum." Exploitation. Now, there's a word that has been scrubbed out of the poverty debate.
Blessed are the poor in spirit. Blessed are they who are stripped of every thing, even of their own wills, that they may no longer belong to themselves.
Only education, self-respect and rational qualities will uplift the down-trodden.
Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men and rocks all of them to manhood.
Poverty is abandonment. We have abandoned the poor.
Who are the oppressors? The few: the King, the capitalist, and a handful of other overseers and superintendents. Who are the oppressed? The many: the nations of the earth; the valuable personages; the workers; they that make the bread that the soft-handed and idle eat.
In the treatment of poverty nationally, one fact stands out: there are twice as many white poor as Negro poor in the United States. Therefore I will not dwell on the experiences of poverty that derive from racial discrimination, but will discuss the poverty that affects white and Negro alike.
Poor? What does that matter? When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window.
Who, being loved, is poor?
Poverty is a bitter thing; but it is not as bitter as the existence of restless vacuity and physical, moral, and intellectual flabbiness, to which those doom themselves who elect to spend all their years in that vainest of all vain pursuits-the pursuit of mere pleasure as a sufficient end in itself.
To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one's own health as well as theirs: there is a needful gift they have to offer which cannot be offered so long as they are confined by poverty.
There is a fascination here that holds rich and poor, strong and weak captive,not with chains and fetters but by an almost touchable solace ...
The poor in our countries have been shut out of our minds and driven from the mainstream of our societies, because we have allowed them to become invisible.
My people are poor and I am one of them
Unless the poor of the world agitate for themselves to be heard, there will be no changes in their circumstances
Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.
Unaimed opulence, in general, is a roundabout, undependable, and wasteful way of improving the living standards of the poor.
In time of poverty, you alone face is your fate. If your spirit is stronger enough, you will survive.
Poverty is such a relative thing; but no man is really poor till life becomes a desert island that gives him neither food nor shelter nor hope.
None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.
Poverty does not produce unhappiness: It produces degradation.
You're hopelessly unemployed and helplessly overprivileged.