“The government should resolve poverty. Drug pushers will not sell drugs if they can feed their family.”— Anonymous, davaotoday.com
“When wealth is passed off as merit, bad luck is seen as bad character. This is how ideologues justify punishing the sick and the poor. But poverty is neither a crime nor a character flaw. Stigmatise those who let people die, not those who struggle to live.”— Sarah Kendzior, aljazeera.com
“What’s really misleading about neoliberal analysis of globalized capitalism is the idea everything works out because conditions for many are gradually improving. For any criticism you have of exploitation and imperialism, they have a chart showing gradual improvement in some communities. Without mor…”— comcastkills, comcastkills.tumblr.com
“We shout "self care" and "joy" all day but won't admit we have a "poor people not apply" footnote to things we have deemed to be for "us." The middle class, the bougie elite. The ones who don’t even realize they’re just as poor. Poor people buy Jordans? We're upset. Poor people have cable? We're ang…”— Preston D. Mitchum, facebook.com
“Maybe one day we'll be able to admit that we hate poor people and don't want them to have nice things.”— Preston D. Mitchum, facebook.com
“I'm for the poor man — all poor men, black and white, they all gotta have a chance. They gotta have a home, a job, and a decent education for their children. 'Every man a king' — that's my slogan.”— Huey Long, en.wikiquote.org
“...in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.”— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, amazon.com
“Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.”— James Baldwin, amazon.com
“Foreign aid is taking money from the poor people of a rich country and giving it to the rich people of a poor country.”— Ron Paul, ronpaul.com
“There are people in our society who should be separated and discarded. I think it’s one of the tendencies of the liberal community to feel that every person in a nation of over 200 million people can be made into a productive citizen.”— Spiro Agnew, bartleby.com
“It's simply a national acknowledgement that in any kind of priority, the needs of human beings must come first. Poverty is here and now. Hunger is here and now. Racial tension is here and now. Pollution is here and now. These are the things that scream for a response. And if we don't listen to that…”— Rod Serling, en.wikiquote.org
“It's no accident that the Irish invented stream-of-consciousness literature. It was of absolute necessity. Poverty and the deprivation of their own language made this very important. Hence long-term memory, which is a Celtic thing.”— John Lydon, latimesblogs.latimes.com
“*parasitic capitalists jack up the prices of essentials in the aftermath of a disaster* Media: unfortunate but what are you gonna do *people steal those overpriced essentials because they cannot afford to pay the extortionate prices being asked* Media: what the fuck do these criminals think they’re…”— electoralcollege, electoralcollege.tumblr.com
“Mankind’s greatest error, the biggest deception of the past thousand years is this: to confuse poverty with stupidity.”— Orhan Pamuk, amazon.com
“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.com
“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.com
“Not all poverty is equal and not all people living in poverty are identical.”— John Green, youtube.com