#poverty

The causes of crime are very complicated. But there is a very big literature, as you know, about single parenthood in crime, about race in crime, and about poverty in crime. ↗

— Bill Bennett

#big #causes #complicated #crime #know

We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#alone #badly #be true #belongs #cannot

Look at your own poverty welcome it cherish it don't be afraid share your death because thus you will share your love and your life ↗

— Jean Vanier

#inspirational #love #poverty #death

We don't need flowery words about inequality to tell us that, and we don't need a party that has led while poverty and hunger rose to record levels to give us lectures about suffering. ↗

— Artur Davis

#flowery #give #hunger #inequality #lectures

We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age. ↗

— Viola Davis

#acting #age #environment #escaping #grew

He is now rising from affluence to poverty. ↗

— Mark Twain

#now #poverty #rising

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#class #conspiracy #degrade #denied #enforced

I know that government doesn't have the all solutions that real solutions do not come from the top down. Instead, the ways to end poverty come from all of us. We are part of the solution. ↗

— Kathleen Blanco

#down #end #government #i #instead

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