#poverty

Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#louisa-may-alcott

The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor. ↗

— Dorothy Day

#christianity #gospels #poor #poverty #gospel

We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#democracy #disease #fight #freedom #intimidated

There isn't a lot of poverty literature in the young-adult world. And I don't know why that is, but I think certainly I felt a gap. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#felt #gap #i #i think #know

Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance. ↗

— Kofi Annan

#challenge #development #equality #gender #goal

[I]t is not by being richer or more powerful that a man becomes better; one is a matter of fortune, the other of virtue. Nor should she deem herself other than venal who weds a rich man rather than a poor, and desires more things in her husband than himself. Assuredly, whomsoever this concupiscence leads into marriage deserves payment rather than affection. ↗

— Héloïse d'Argenteuil

#concupiscence #dignity #fortune #greed #honesty

A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth. ↗

— Lloyd Banks

#glaring #look #poverty #revolution #soon

The forgotten world is made up primarily of the developing nations, where most of the people, comprising more than fifty percent of the total world population, live in poverty, with hunger as a constant companion and fear of famine a continual menace. ↗

— Norman Borlaug

#constant #continual #developing #famine #fear

A whole generation of Americans will retire in poverty instead of prosperity, because they simply are not preparing for retirement now. ↗

— Scott Cook

#generation #instead #now #poverty #preparing

Poverty doesn't imply necessarily violence. ↗

— Alberto Fujimori

#necessarily #poverty #violence