#overt

It is part of my faith as a Muslim to try to help those who are suffering from poverty or economic or political injustice. ↗

— Cat Stevens

#faith #help #injustice #muslim #part

Certainly, the poverty, the discrimination, the episodic unemployment could not but strike an inquiring youngster: why did these exist, and what could we do about them. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

#certainly #could #did #discrimination #episodic

International lending banks need to focus on areas where private investment doesn't go, such as infrastructure projects, education and poverty relief. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

#banks #education #focus #go #infrastructure

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#better #god #heaven #helping #how

I'm an introspective person. I'm not an extrovert. ↗

— John Thaw

#i #introspective #person

While Congress can't overturn the Supreme Court, we can provide carrots and sticks to prevent local governments from unfairly taking property from landowners. ↗

— Stephanie Herseth

#congress #court #governments #landowners #local

Jesus is the starving, the parched, the prisoner, the stranger, the naked, the sick, the dying. Jesus is the oppressed, the poor. To live with Jesus is to live with the poor. To live with the poor is to live with Jesus. ↗

— Jean Vanier

#poverty #community

People.. were poor not because they were stupid or lazy. They worked all day long, doing complex physical tasks. They were poor because the financial institution in the country did not help them widen their economic base. ↗

— Muhammad Yunus

#economics #hard-work #poverty #poverty

You can't eat straight A's. ↗

— Maxine Hong Kingston

#poverty #school #poverty

That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a man who found a magic cup and learned that if he wept into the cup, his tears turned into pearls. But even though he had always been poor, he was a happy man and rarely shed a tear. So he found ways to make himself sad so that his tears could make him rich. As the pearls piled up, so did his greed grow. The story ended with the man sitting on a mountain of pearls, knife in hand, weeping helplessly into the cup with his beloved wife's slain body in his arms. ↗

— Khaled Hosseini

#cring #fables #greed #poverty #sorrow