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“I don't want to romanticize poverty. I just mean that there was, for me, a kind of grace and joy in it that I can't quite describe. I'd have loved to give us all enough to live better, but... this was pretty good regardless.”

Book:Happiness Will Follow

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“In the middle of great abundance, and without having studied the social question, I believed that everybody had the right to be clean and clothed, to wear shoes, and I didn’t understand why it wasn’t so. I thought everyone knew how to read and write and I was astonished when I saw the opposite”

Poverty Literacy

Author:Luisa Capetillo

“Let the masses understand that these robbers hold this property (which is so much unpaid labor) under the plea of the laws which they themselves [the robbers] have made, and by the sanction of the very men they have locked out to starve.”

Law Poverty Property Laws Class War

Author:Lucy Parsons

“The overseer’s whip is now fully supplanted by the lash of hunger! And the auction block by the chain-gang and convict cell”

Poverty Racism Slavery Prison Hunger Southern United States Southern Usa Black Codes

Author:Lucy Parsons

“Poverty makes for a dull head”

Poverty Modesty

Book:The Wild Geese

Source: The Wild Geese

“This government has represented benefits as somehow shameful. The point about universal benefits is that they affirm the value of such social tasks as having children, rearing them, or caring for relatives; they make benefits themselves an expression of collective approval for the endeavour, not begrudged hand-outs, stigmatising the recipients as beggars and failures.”

Poverty Benefits Neoliberalism Thatcherism Stigmatising

Book:Into the Dangerous World: Some Reflections on Childhood and Its Costs

Source: Into the Dangerous World: Some Reflections on Childhood and Its Costs

“We can't be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don't have something better.”

Inspirational Quotes Change Courage Growing Letting Go Life And Living Encouragement Self Discovery Exploration Changes

Author:C. JoyBell C.

“Comparisons with the past are of limited help: The ending of hanging won't make suicides in youth remand centres go away; the mortality, famine, rickets, scabies of Victorian slum children don't turn free school milk into a excessive luxury.”

Poverty Neoliberalism Thatcherism

Book:Into the Dangerous World: Some Reflections on Childhood and Its Costs

Source: Into the Dangerous World: Some Reflections on Childhood and Its Costs

“I'm just a guy who was predisposed to be a cartoonist, who happened to make it through all the bullshit that comes with being poor and brown (from an interview in the book Attitude, 2002)”

Poverty Latino Cartoonist

Author:Lalo Alcaraz

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