#poverty

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What a weary time those years were -- to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.


Charles Bukowski


#poverty #youth #need

There is no Them. There are only facets of Us.


John Green


#poverty #them #us #man

He seems so frivolous and so careless, but he gives money to beggars, not frivolously or carelessly, but because he believes in giving money to beggars, and giving it to them “where they stand”. He says he knows perfectly well all the arguments against giving money to beggars. But he finds those to be precisely the arguments for giving money to them. If beggars are lazy or deceptive or wanting a drink, he knows only too well his own lack of motivation, his own dishonesty, his own thirst. He doesn’t believe in “scientific charity” because that is too easy, as easy as writing a check. He believes in “promiscuous charity” because that is really difficult. “It means the most dark and terrible of all human actions—talking to a man. In fact, I know of nothing more difficult than really talking to the poor men we meet.” (pp. 13-14)


Dale Ahlquist


#social-justice #men

If any man, out of an humour, should turn all his Estate into Money, and keep it dead, he would soon be sensible of Poverty growing upon him, whilst he is eating out of the quick stock.


Dudley North


#dead #eating #estate #growing #him

In their poverty, the mentally handicapped reveal God to us and hold us close to the gospel.


Henri Nouwen


#god #gospel #handicapped #hold #mentally

My first hero, as a teenager, was James Connolly. I remember discovering that he was a feminist, and that was an eye-opener, coming from a man of such poverty.


Frances O'Grady


#discovering #feminist #first #hero #i

An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.


Madalyn Murray O'Hair


#believes #built #church #conquered #death

It's hard to do it because you gotta look people in the eye and tell 'em they're irresponsible and lazy. And who's gonna wanna do that? Because that's what poverty is, ladies and gentlemen. In this country, you can succeed if you get educated and work hard. Period. Period.


Bill O'Reilly


#country #educated #eye #gentlemen #get

You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.


P. J. O'Rourke


#giving #money #people #poverty #rid

You can learn all about the human condition from covering the crime beat in a big city - you don't need to go to Beirut for that - but a foreign correspondent begins to understand poverty from a different perspective.


P. J. O'Rourke


#beat #begins #beirut #big #big city