“There are literally billions of people on the planet who live in an unimaginable poverty that's not in any way different from the plight of the people in Orchid. And you can't have the splendor of Rodeo Drive without the sweatshops of Indonesia; those two things go hand in hand.” PeopleWayTwoDifferentHandsPovertyPlanetsBillionsTwo ThingsIndonesiaHand In HandSplendorUnimaginablePlightOrchidsRodeoSweatshopsRodeo Drive Author:Tom Morello
“What is poverty, if not violence. Like, the number of people who die every year from starvation and from hunger and poverty is in the tens of millions.” PeopleIfsYearsDiesNumbersPovertyMillionsViolenceHungerStarvationHunger And Poverty Author:Tom Morello
“Poverty is curable, but it’s just not done, because it's not profitable. And that is the kind of violence that's perpetuated on humanity.” KindDoneHumanityPovertyViolenceProfitable Author:Tom Morello
“I think I was meant to be a musician who speaks his mind about social justice issues. And I grew up in a lower middle class family, but a family that had enough money to buy a $50 guitar and a $50 amplifier, and had a basement to rehearse in. What I think the global human cost of this horrific poverty is how many Mozarts or curers of cancer are slaving away in the Maquiladoras along the Tijuana border, or in the Indonesian sweat shops? There are billions of people who will never become the people they could be, or the people they were meant to be, due to crushing poverty.” PeopleThinkingMindEnoughSpeakJusticePovertyMusicianSocial JusticeCancerCrushMiddle ClassMeant To BeHorrific Author:Tom Morello
“Poverty is not an accident of, sort of, an economic spreadsheet. Poverty is a crime. There are criminals involved. And those criminals walk the streets as free men. What my music is about, and what - this from the riots in the streets of Greece and Spain to the people's uprisings in Egypt and Libya and Madison is about is holding those people accountable, those who are responsible for subverting the entire global economy and causing so much misery and then laughing about it with their, you know, clinking their champagne glasses on their yachts.” PeopleMenPovertyLaughingEconomyEconomicCrimeMusic IsResponsibleMiseryGreeceRiotGlobal EconomyYacht Author:Tom Morello
