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Th direct elimination of elimination of poverty should be the objective of all development aid. Development should be viewed as a human rights issue, not as a question of simply increasing the gross national product (GNP).


Muhammad Yunus


#economics #poverty #poverty-alleviation #social-change #change

Although it is very easy to marry a wife, it is very difficult to support her along with the children and the household. Accordingly, no one notices this faith of Jacob. Indeed, many hate fertility in a wife for the sole reason that the offspring must be supported and brought up. For this is what they commonly say: ‘Why should I marry a wife when I am a pauper and a beggar? I would rather bear the burden of poverty alone and not load myself with misery and want.’ But this blame is unjustly fastened on marriage and fruitfulness. Indeed, you are indicting your unbelief by distrusting God’s goodness, and you are bringing greater misery upon yourself by disparaging God’s blessing. For if you had trust in God’s grace and promises, you would undoubtedly be supported. But because you do not hope in the Lord, you will never prosper.


Martin Luther


#faith #god #marriage #money #parenthood

[Saying] No to racial injustice means a call to look our own bigotry straight in the eye, and No to world hunger calls upon us to recognize our own lack of poverty. No to war requires us to come to terms with our own violence and aggression, and no to oppression and torture forces us to deal directly with our own insensitivities. And so all our No's become challenges to purify our own hearts. In this sense, confrontation always includes self-confrontation. (p. 123-124)


Henri J. M. Nouwen Donald P. McNeill Douglas A. Morrison


#confrontation #poverty #racism #self-confrontation #war

I need the money, people are very coy about money, and the ladies arent just coy, they are sci fi about money… …people ask, well, dont sweet things happen? yes, indeed, many sweet things, but sweet doesnt keep you from dying, making love doesnt keep you from dying unless you get paid, writing doesnt keep you from dying unless you get paid, being wise doesnt keep you from dying unless you get paid, facts are facts, being poor makes you face facts which also does not keep you from dying.


Andrea Dworkin


#love

We have written too many books about love and so few about hunger and poverty; that is why we need to wake up and leave stupidity behind.


M.F. Moonzajer


#hunger #love #poverty #stupidity #written

I only seem negative to the fortunate. That's because I show the less fortunate that they aren't less fortunate after all.


Criss Jami


#fortunate #fortune #happiness #inspirational #negativity

Poverty is unnecessary.


Muhammad Yunus


#poverty #unnecessary

America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves.... It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters.


Kurt Vonnegut


#poverty #men

Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.


Mae West


#conquers #except #love #poverty #things

Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient


Milton Berle


#poverty #truth #inspirational






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