#poo

I believe Aids is the most important issue we face, because how we treat the poor is a reflection of who we are as a people. ↗

— Alicia Keys

#because #believe #face #how #i

Paul Farmer has helped to build amazing health care system in one of the poorest areas of Haiti. He founded Partners in Health, which serves the destitute and the sick in many parts of the world from Haiti to Boston and from Russia to Peru. ↗

— Tracy Kidder

#areas #boston #build #care #destitute

The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#carving #loudly #out #past #peaceful

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#out #peaceful #poor #tomorrows #wars

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#chisel #out #poor #tomorrow #war

What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts. ↗

— Stephen King

#assume #care #charitable #debts #education

At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#growing #growing up #had #home #just

Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich. ↗

— Naomi Klein

#because #creditors #investors #poor #rich

Neither Western donor countries like the U.S. nor poor recipients like Cameroon care much about Africans who are poor, rural and female. ↗

— Nicholas D. Kristof

#cameroon #care #countries #donor #female

Abortion politics have distracted all sides from what is really essential: a major aid campaign to improve midwifery, prenatal care and emergency obstetric services in poor countries. ↗

— Nicholas D. Kristof

#aid #campaign #care #countries #distracted