“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
“Violence is as much a part of what is means to be poor as being hungry, sick, homeless, or jobless. In fact, as we shall see, violence is frequently the problem that poor people are most concerned about. It is one of the core reasons they are poor in the first place, and one of the primary reasons they stay poor. Indeed, we will simply never be able to win the battle against extreme poverty unless we address it.” SufferingCompassionPovertyViolenceCharityAltruism 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