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“For their holidays: the rich’s kids travel the world; the poor’s kids roam around their grandparents’ yard.”

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“Here was the South Side--a million in captivity--stretching from this doorstep as far as the eye could see. And they didn't even read; depressed populations don't have the time or energy to spare. The affluent populations, which should have their help, didn't as far as could be discovered, read, either--they merely bought books and devoured them, but not in order to learn: in order to learn new attitudes.”

Reading Poverty

Book:The Fire Next Time

Source: The Fire Next Time

“Some people in orthodox churches in Africa take poverty as a path that leads to heaven, making christianity look unattractive.”

“Poor people do not go on holiday; they go home.”

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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I wonder what children whose parents have money think about in their spare time.”

Children Wealth Money Poverty Childhood Obsession Parents

Book:Little Failure: A Memoir

Source: Little Failure: A Memoir

“The level of your self-control is measured as the difference between how you act when you have nothing and how you react when you have everything.”

Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“Or maybe he means in a richer world the begging population is melting away. But no to that too. So maybe, perhaps, he means there aren't many 'human beings' left to look, see, and understand well enough for one to ask and one to give. Everyone busy, running, jumping, there's no time to study one another. But I guess that's bilge and hogwash, slop and sentiment.”

Humanity Poverty Communication Bradbury White Whale Green Shadows

Author:Ray Bradbury

“Jesus lived in occupied territory, in poverty and misery, and his stories and preaching are all about food, land, liberation from bondage and servitude and get. He preached about providing for those who lacked the most and were considered expendable, as the birds of the air, and yet in Jesus' eyes were where one found the treasure of heaven, here, now, on earth.”

Poverty Ministry Discipleship

Book:The New Stations of the Cross: The Way of the Cross According to Scripture

Source: The New Stations of the Cross: The Way of the Cross According to Scripture

“Even though he'd been born into a country unshackling itself from its colonial masters, even though he'd lived through nearly twenty years of freedom, nothing much changed for you when you were poor.”

Freedom Poverty

Book:The Weight of a Feather and other stories

Source: The Weight of a Feather and other stories

“One of the biggest misconceptions remains that Neil Gaiman spent his youth lurching from bedsit to library and back again, subsisting on a diet of blood-temperature baked beans and the wild leeks he managed to pull from the side of a disused railway track. It is a misconception that he nurtures, whether consciously or otherwise, through omission.”

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Book:Mouth

Source: Mouth

“A celebrity farts, and everyone endures, but the unpopular will be thrased to death.”

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Author:Michael Bassey Johnson