#pov

Wal-Mart impoverished its own customer base. Google is facing exactly the same issue long-term, although not yet. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#base #customer #customer base #exactly #facing

I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty. ↗

— Claude Levi-Strauss

#conviction #greater #i #intellectual #known

The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#poverty

I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty. ↗

— Loretta Lynn

#going #i #much #places #poverty

Because Katrina put it out there, no one can play the pretend game anymore that there isn't poverty and inequality in this country. The Millions More Movement - Katrina gives it added significance. ↗

— Marc Morial

#anymore #because #country #game #gives

I know what poverty is. ↗

— Manny Pacquiao

#know #poverty

These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are not being represented. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#being #feeling #flourish #margins #movements

It is shameful that millions of Americans are suffering the economic injustice of working a full-time job and earning a wage that leaves them below the poverty line. ↗

— Bill Pascrell

#earning #economic #full-time #full-time job #injustice

What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences. ↗

— Abbe Pierre

#being #being done #beset #consciences #done

Blacks are about seven times more likely to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty than whites. ↗

— John Powell

#blacks #concentrated #likely #live #more