#poverty

We started the AIDS virus. We are only able to maintain our level of living by making sure that Third World people live in grinding poverty. ↗

— Jeremiah Wright

#aids #grinding #level #live #living

Alone, human beings can feel hunger. Alone, we can feel cold. Alone, we can feel pain. To feel poor, however, is something we do only in comparison to others. ↗

— Eric Greitens

#education

The ideal-worker standard and norm of work devotion push mothers to the margins of economic life. And a society that marginalizes its mothers impoverishes its children. That is why the paradigmatic poor family in the United States is a single mother and her child. ↗

— Joan C. Williams

#economics #mothers #poverty #work #family

Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps. ↗

— Brennan Manning

#faith #heart #poverty #servanthood #faith

Poverty is not only about income levels, but for lack of freedom that comes from physical insecurity ↗

— Jacqueline Novogratz

#insecurity #international-development #poverty #freedom

Hungry for love, He looks at you. Thirsty for kindness, He begs of you. Naked for loyalty, He hopes in you. Homeless for shelter in your heart, He asks of you. Will you be that one to Him? ↗

— Mother Teresa

#poverty #love

Don’t let affluence make you impoverished of God. ↗

— Jon Bloom

#christianity #love-of-money #poverty #temptation #love

When giving money to the amputated, you must put it directly into their pockets. ↗

— Greg Campbell

#poverty #shocking #money

Be patient, you are in good company. Our Lord Himself, our Lady, the apostles, and countless saints, both men and women, have been poor. ↗

— St. Francis de Sales

#poverty #men

There’s no way that Michael Jackson or whoever Jackson should have a million thousand droople billion dollars and then there’s people starving. There’s no way! There’s no way that these people should own planes and there people don’t have houses. Apartments. Shacks. Drawers. Pants! I know you’re rich. I know you got 40 billion dollars, but can you just keep it to one house? You only need ONE house. And if you only got two kids, can you just keep it to two rooms? I mean why have 52 rooms and you know there’s somebody with no room?! It just don’t make sense to me. It don’t. ↗

— Tupac Shakur

#money #poverty #reality #rich #tupac