#overt

If you look internationally over the last 50 years there have been improvements in the third world, but in the last 20 years the reverse has happened, with debt crises and increased poverty. ↗

— David Korten

#crises #debt #happened #improvements #increased

Education can lift individuals out of poverty and into rewarding careers. ↗

— Christine Gregoire

#education #individuals #into #lift #out

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty. ↗

— Juvenal

#men #poverty #qualities #rise #thwarted

One of the reasons inequality gets so deep in this country is that everyone wants to be rich. That's the American ideal. Poor people don't like talking about poverty because even though they might live in the projects surrounded by other poor people and have, like, ten dollars in the bank, they don't like to think of themselves as poor. ↗

— Jay-Z

#american #bank #because #country #deep

The burden of poverty isn't just that you don't always have the things you need, it's the feeling of being embarrassed every day of your life, and you'd do anything to lift that burden. ↗

— Jay-Z

#anything #being #burden #day #embarrassed

I always try to be myself. Ever since I was an introverted kid, I'd get on stage and be able to break out of my shell. ↗

— Beyonce Knowles

#always #break #ever #get #i

We revolutionaries acknowledge the right to revolution when we see that the situation is no longer tolerable, that it has become a frozen. Then we have the right to overthrow it. ↗

— Ernst Toller

#become #frozen #longer #overthrow #revolution

I was introverted, shy. But if you win a lot you need to be extroverted, or they'll think you're arrogant. ↗

— Alberto Tomba

#extroverted #i #introverted #lot #need

Elvis was rock'n'roll. He came from the poverty and the pain. ↗

— Link Wray

#elvis #pain #poverty #rock #roll

Just as we were finishing 'Paul's Boutique' we got our own places, and I was going out to clubs a lot less. I got a bit more introverted and spent a lot more time on my own reading. I would just go down to the esoteric bookstore and wander around. ↗

— Adam Yauch

#bit #bookstore #clubs #down #esoteric