#poverty

Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible. ↗

— Isaiah Berlin

#cured #evils #fighting #goals #ignorance

People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It's almost maddening. ↗

— Daphne Zuniga

#apathetic #continue #homelessness #ignore #maddening

Physical hunger and physical poverty is something I could only imagine. I've been poor when I was in China... As kids we never had to starve, but just didn't have enough meat, enough rice. ↗

— Joan Chen

#china #could #enough #had #hunger

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#begs #bespeaks #bread #daily #daily bread

And of course, we know that opportunity lies outside the reach of some of our people. We don't need flowery words about inequality to tell us that, and we don't need a party that has led while poverty and hunger rose to record levels to give us lectures about suffering. ↗

— Artur Davis

#course #flowery #give #hunger #inequality

If we as a nation are to break the cycle of poverty, crime and the growing underclass of young people ill equipped to be productive citizens, we need to not only implement effective programs to prevent teen pregnancy, but we must also help those who have already given birth so that they become effective, nurturing, bonding parents. ↗

— Jane Fonda

#also #become #birth #bonding #break

Think about it: Reducing crime and poverty and ensuring that we have an educated, stable work force has a direct effect on you and me and the future of our country. ↗

— Jane Fonda

#country #crime #direct #educated #effect

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty. ↗

— Henry Ford

#capital punishment #charity #crime #cure #fundamentally

Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#australia #cut #immigration #poverty #sentencing

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