#pov

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

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. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#cannot #capacity #confined #essential #gift

I was deeply concerned then, and have become more concerned since, that unless we can deal with the questions of development and the questions of poverty, there's no way that we're going to have a peaceful world for our children. ↗

— James Wolfensohn

#children #concerned #deal #deeply #development

So the first thing you need to do about conflict is to prevent it, and the best way of preventing it is by dealing with the question of poverty. ↗

— James Wolfensohn

#best #best way #conflict #dealing #first

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

There are many different rivers that lead into despair: there's poverty; there's political repression; there's gender apartheid - there's a sense of culture loss; there's religious fanaticism. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

#culture #despair #different #fanaticism #gender

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

— Anzia Yezierska

#learned #learned man #like #man #ornament

Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#despotism #fetters #freedom #our #possessions

Affluence creates poverty. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#creates #poverty

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