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“In the end, we can only do the best we can with who we are, paying close attention to the ways pieces of ourselves matter to the work while never losing sight of the most important questions.”

Book:Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

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“When you're missing a peice of yourself, aching, gut wrenching emptiness begins to take over. Until you find the link that completes your very soul, the feeling will never go away. Most people find a way to fill this void, material possessions, a string of relationships, affairs, food...I bare my soul, with words, for all to see.”

Love Writing Heartbreak Soulmate

Author:Jennifer Salaiz

“Bagiku ada sesuatu yang paling berharga dan hakiki dalam kehidupan: 'dapat mencintai, dapat iba hati, dapat merasai kedukaan'. Tanpa itu semua maka kita tidak lebih dari benda. Berbahagialah orang yang masih mempunyai rasa cinta, yang belum sampai kehilangan benda yang paling bernilai itu. Kalau kita telah kehilangan itu maka absurdlah hidup kita”

Inspirational Quotes

Book:Catatan Seorang Demonstran

Source: Catatan Seorang Demonstran

“When poverty comes, wealth looks back at you. Will you seek it again?”

Wealth Poverty Seek

Author:Alan Maiccon

“St Laurence gathered the poor, the blind, and the lame together in the church in Rome and brought in the rapacious Roman authorities, proclaiming, “Here are the riches of the Church!” Whenever Christians refuse to use the word “Church” as a synonym for “those in prominent roles in the clergy hierarchy,” but instead assume and take for granted that “Church” means principally the uncelebrated, the downtrodden, and the poor, the Holy Spirit is active in making the stories of Church history live in the habits of Christian speech.”

Religion Jesus Church Christianity Poverty Ethics

Book:God's Companions: Reimagining Christian Ethics

Source: God's Companions: Reimagining Christian Ethics

“If all had to wait for better things until they could be provided for all, that day would in many instances never come. Even the poorest today owe their relative material well-being to the results of past inequality.”

Poverty Inequality Wealth Creation Economic Progress Luxuries

Book:The Constitution of Liberty

Source: The Constitution of Liberty

“I'm so sorry to do this to you," she whispered tenderly. "I'm so sorry we are too poor to buy you a toy car.”

Poverty

Author:Li Cunxin

“Poverty has long arms that reach through generations of people, leaving telltale bruise marks on its victims even after they are blessed enough to get out.”

Poverty Intergenerational Trauma

Book:My Name is Child of God: A First-Person Look At Poverty

Source: My Name is Child of God: A First-Person Look At Poverty

“Go to war, come home as a sickened veteran, and be denied your earned disability payments to live a life of extreme poverty and hardship.”

War Social Poverty Security Deny Hardship Disability Veteran Disabled Sickened

Author:Steven Magee

“We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet. This story deals with gentlefolk, or with those who are obliged to pretend that they are gentlefolk.”

Class Poverty Social Commentary Howards End E M Forster

Book:Howards End

Source: Howards End

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