#overt

For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation. ↗

— Kim Campbell

#design #greater #human #human situation #mainly

Money can't buy poverty. ↗

— Marty Feldman

#money #poverty

My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#experiencing #family #got #guards #had

Affluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together. You got some sugar and I don't; I borrow some of yours. Next month you might not have any flour; well, I'll give you some of mine. ↗

— Ray Charles

#any #borrow #flour #give #got

But looking back, the fact was that I had a couple of big hits too quickly and it was simply too much for an introvert like me to handle. ↗

— Paula Cole

#big #couple #fact #had #handle

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#end #ignorance #in the end #incontrovertible #malice

I can't go and shoot people in the back of the head because It's a kids' movie, which is actually quite a good test because you haven't got the overt threat of a knife in the face. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#back #because #face #go #good

Poverty and the rule of race that is called apartheid drive the Transkeian migrant from security on the land to work in the cities, and then back again. ↗

— Ruth First

#apartheid #back #called #cities #drive

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of. ↗

— Confucius

#badly #country #governed #poverty #something

There are more than 300,000 families in the Gulf region that lost their homes and are waiting for peace of mind. The hurricane exposed the sad reality of poverty in America. We saw, in all its horrific detail, the vulnerabilities of living in inadequate housing and the heartbreak of losing one's home. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#detail #exposed #families #gulf #heartbreak