#overt

Most organizations should be pro-active, but philanthropists concerned with poverty should deliberately be reactive, learning from the efforts of ordinary folks who tired of looking the other way as their communities fell apart. ↗

— Marvin Olasky

#communities #concerned #deliberately #efforts #fell

I think that America in general is piratical. Every time we accept a paycheck for doing almost nothing, allowing us to live above the poverty line, we're engaging in piracy. ↗

— Will Oldham

#accept #allowing #almost #america #doing

It's interesting to feel the pressure of having to be outgoing, because I think in general, as a human being, I'm pessimistic and introverted. But, it's cool, because it's a whole different side of me, and I impress myself. Even at times when I think that there's no possible way that I can be engaging, I'll suddenly pull it out and impress myself. ↗

— Nate Ruess

#being #cool #different #engaging #even

Our capital system is haunted by the demon of error: error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die. What effect was race having? What effect was poverty having? ↗

— George Ryan

#capital #demon #deserves #determining #die

With the right support, a child growing up in a dysfunctional household, who was destined for a lifetime on benefits could be put on an entirely different track - one which sees them move into fulfilling and sustainable work. In doing so, they will pull themselves out of poverty. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#child #could #destined #different #doing

There are three major social issues that this country is struggling with: education, poverty, and drugs. Two of them we talk about, and one of them we don't. ↗

— Steven Soderbergh

#country #education #issues #major #poverty

Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#condensed #experience #generation #his way #incontrovertible

My father was a Presbyterian minister, working among the poor in West Virginia. He had taken what amounted to a vow of poverty when he accepted that call and so we never had much money. ↗

— James Green Somerville

#among #amounted #call #father #had

The aim of my life is the overthrow of monarchy. ↗

— Karl Liebknecht

#life #monarchy #my life #overthrow

We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts. ↗

— Harold MacMillan

#down #experts #fall #kings #overthrown