“If we only look away, it's hard to listen, and it is through listening that we can learn how to actually help, rather than just imposing upon others OUR ideas for what they need.”— John Green, youtube.comTagged: Poverty, Helping Others
“I understand this urge to look away; but I think to change the world, we must grapple with it as we find it. I wanna live in a world where children don't die of diarrhea and malaria, where they aren't malnourished, where they can drink clean water. And the world I want to live in won't come about by…”— John Green, youtube.comTagged: Poverty, Marginalized, Systemic Injustice
“The poor are voiceless in too much of our contemporary discourse.”— John Green, youtube.comTagged: Poverty, Marginalized, Systemic Injustice