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“Poverty does not simply mean to have little or no money; it is not reducible to the description of one's miserable circumstances”

Book:Against the Double Blackmail: Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles with the Neighbours

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Against the Double Blackmail: Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles with the Neighbours

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Slavoj Žižek

A Slovenian philosopher and an influential figure in contemporary Western philosophy. Born on March 21, 1949, Slavoj Žižek is known for his unique Marxist perspective and profound analysis of culture, politics, and film. more

“Our society's insistence on limiting help to those who "deserve it," as indicated by their status in the labor market, has a profound impact on the capacity of those living in deep poverty to escape ... we also cannot defend the inhumane debate about who are the deserving versus the undeserving poor.”

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Author:Wes Moore

“We were but a step away from the vagrants and exiles who are left to beg by the roads until they were murdered by the cold and buried by the snow.”

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Book:The Glass Woman

Source: The Glass Woman

“Every single day, our governments allow many of those who have never killed even a single plant or animal to starve to death, but feed—more than once—many of those who have each killed many people intentionally.”

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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Mad, you must see me mad; your opinion is awash to me as long as I am crazed by love. I welcome this folly that you give to me with great estate. Thief? Rascal? I did what others did and what others had me do and we are all doomed, but I do not regret for one instant the coming of events of this most splendid night. You should have seen how carefully I proceeded and how I found love in the most dreadful of streets, during my most mourning of states and on the most propitious of nights. Play samartian to the fool, champion to the underdog. So to speak, I am a hubris acolyte of love.”

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Book:Sons of Algiers

Source: Sons of Algiers

“Some critics will counter that poverty is a choice made by those that are lazy or who lack the desire to change their loves for the better. I agree that poverty is a choice. But that choice is not made by the people who live under its oppressive effects. Rather, the choice is ours. It's the choice of government that represents our priorities and allocates our investments. Its a choice reinforced by the companies we patronize and the organizations we support.”

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Book:Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of an American City

Source: Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of an American City

“Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world. All things break. And all things can be mended. Not with time, as they say, but with intention. So go. Love intentionally, extravagantly, unconditionally. The broken world waits in darkness for the light that is you.”

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Author:L.R. Knost

“Ethics without economy leads to physical starvation and economy without ethics leads to mental starvation. It’s only with a healthy combination of both can the human society live and progress with health, sanity and serenity.”

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Author:Abhijit Naskar

“These slums... epitomise the begging bowl - to uncover our abject poverty, because Kathmandu is home to almost all the foreign donor agencies. Now the state doesn't have to escort these see-no-evil donors to the remote countryside and observe the rags and tatters of the nation”

Poverty Development Nepal Donor Agencies Slims

Author:DB Gurung

“Ours is a country where babies are born with crushing debts, where more than half the country are hungry and homeless, where the rays of modernisation never reach those far-flung remote villages, where there is not network of roads in mountain districts, no safe drinking water or a regular supply of already meagre electricity. We sell the electricity at low price and buy back at high price – what madness is this? Those buggers on the high government chairs should die of shame.”

Poverty Development Debt Nepal

Author:DB Gurung

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