#poverty

Kakatwang isipin ano? Sa isang bansang uso ang fastfood, diet, at liposuction, milyon-milyon ang nagugutom. (Isn’t it funny? In a country where fastfood, diet, and liposuction are popular, millions are hungry.) ↗

— Kara David

#diet

This country is going to implode, or put another way, it's going to get crushed under the weight of poverty. You can't have one percent of the people who own and control more wealth than the other 90 percent of the population. ↗

— Tavis Smiley

#another way #control #country #crushed #get

She missed -- without knowing what she missed-- paints and crayons ↗

— Toni Morrison

#culture #poverty #art

Poverty is not a circumstance, it's an attitude. ↗

— Rita Gonzalez

#poverty #attitude

A beautiful death is for people who lived like animals to die like angels—loved and wanted. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#poverty #beauty

I’m encouraging young people to become social business entrepreneurs and contribute to the world, rather than just making money. Making money is no fun. Contributing to and changing the world is a lot more fun. ↗

— Muhammad Yunus

#goal #poverty #real-values #business

You can't change things. That's life. Poor stays poor, rich says rich, and those two, they will never meet. ↗

— Antonia Michaelis

#change

Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant of the health or viability of a society. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#average #coming #economists #health #income

Research experts want to know what can be done about the values of poor segregated children; and this is a question that needs asking. But they do not ask what can be done about the values of the people who have segregated these communities. There is no academic study of the pathological detachment of the very rich... ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#poverty-wealth #school-reform #segregation #education

Welcome to Hartford. The poorest city in the wealthiest state in the richest country on earth. ↗

— Susan Eaton

#poverty #school-reform #education