“Over the years, I have sat with many very poor mothers and fathers as they have shared their stories of surviving genocide, slavery, murder, torture, humiliating rapes, and abuse. The pain they describe is unfathomable – and mental temptation is to imagine that the people who endure it are somehow fundamentally different from me. Maybe, somehow, they just don’t feel things like I do. Maybe they expect less, care less, hope for less, want less or need less. But painfully, over time, I have seen that they are exactly like me.” SufferingCompassionPovertyEmpathyAbuse Book:The Locust Effect: Why the End of Poverty Requires the End of Violence Source: The Locust Effect: Why the End of Poverty Requires the End of Violence
“For the hundreds of millions of the world’s poorest people who live outside the protection of the rule of law, they principal reason they suffer abuse is often not the absence of good laws, but the absence of a functioning public justice system to enforce those laws.” LawJusticePovertyViolenceAbuseInjusticePoor PeopleDeveloping World Book:The Locust Effect: Why the End of Poverty Requires the End of Violence Source: The Locust Effect: Why the End of Poverty Requires the End of Violence