#poverty

The media seems to think only abortion and gay marriage are religious issues. Poverty is a moral issue, it's a faith issue, it's a religious issue. ↗

— Jim Wallis

#faith #gay #gay marriage #issue #issues

My mother's illness fitted into this protest against the treatment of the sick who could not pay, the inefficiency of commercialism, the waste, the extravagance, and the poverty. ↗

— Ellen Wilkinson

#commercialism #could #extravagance #fitted #illness

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

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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 makes you wise but it's a curse. ↗

— Bertolt Brecht

#makes #poverty #wise #you

A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at some point - finality of judgment. ↗

— Warren E. Burger

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Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity. ↗

— Coco Chanel

#opposite #people #poverty #some #some people

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

Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation. ↗

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

#beyond #care #culture #education #extends

Hispanic children now make the largest group of children in poverty. ↗

— Mario Diaz-Balart

#group #hispanic #largest #make #now