#overt

If they think they have issues with the president not doing enough for the poor now, wait and see what happens if the opposition takes office. Then they would really need a poverty tour. ↗

— Cornel West

#enough #happens #issues #need #now

Sade's stuff is real deceptive. She's got stuff about prostitutes, poverty and people on the streets. ↗

— Lucinda Williams

#deceptive #got #people #poverty #real

By the breaking in of enraged merciless armies, flourishing countries have been laid waste, great numbers of people have perished in a short time, and many more have been pressed with poverty and grief. ↗

— John Woolman

#been #breaking #countries #enraged #flourishing

Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse. ↗

— Anzia Yezierska

#learned #learned man #like #man #ornament

I'm a very introverted person. Nothing that's happened has changed that, but one of the reasons I write for teens is it's a real privilege to have a seat at the table in the lives of young people when they're figuring out what matters to them. ↗

— John Green

#figuring #happened #i #i write #introverted

I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances. ↗

— Pam Grier

#circumstances #i #i came #part #poverty

The healthy Christian is not necessarily the extrovert, ebullient Christian, but the Christian who has a sense of God's presence stamped deep on his soul, who trembles at God's word, who lets it dwell in him richly by constant meditation upon it, and who tests and reforms his life daily in response to it. ↗

— J.I. Packer

#extrovert #god #introvert #life

That made me feel good, not to go to a resort where outside the door is extreme poverty. ↗

— Jasmine Guy

#extreme #extreme poverty #feel #feel good #go

My father was criticized as a dictator, but that should not overshadow his accomplishments in restructuring the country. He brought Korea out of 5,000 years of poverty. What he left unaccomplished was democratization of the system. ↗

— Park Geun-hye

#brought #country #criticized #democratization #dictator

A broken heart is such a shabby thing, like poverty and failure and the incurable diseases which are also deforming. I hate it and am ashamed of it, and I must somehow repair this heart and put it back into its normal condition, as a tough somewhat scarred but operating organ. ↗

— Martha Gellhorn

#poverty