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“Sometimes I wore smiles but didn’t feel them. Sometimes I felt them and didn’t wear them. I didn’t want her to know how much I craved this. I bit my bottom lip.”

Book:Rival

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“Οι κοσμικές κυρίες ζουν μια ζωή μάρτυρα. Για να προβάρουν και να δώσουν αξία στις νεραϊδένιες τουαλέτες που οι μοδίστρες σκοτώνονται για να ράψουν, αλλάζουν το ένα φόρεμα μετά το άλλο από το βράδυ ώς το πρωί' παραδίδουν επί ώρες το κούφιο το κεφάλι τους στους καλλιτέχνες των τριχών, οι οποίοι θέλουν πάση θυσία να χορτάσουν το μάταιο πάθος τους για τους ψεύτικους κότσους. Σφιγμένες μέσα στους κορσέδες τους, ριμωγμένες μέσα στα μποτάκια τους, με ντεκολτέ τόσο ανοιχτό που να κοκκινίζει ακόμα κι ένας σκαφτιάς, στοβιλίζονται ολόκληρες νύχτες στους φιλανθρωπικούς τους χορούς με σκοπό να συγκεντρώσουν κάποιες δεκάρες για τη φτωχολογιά. Άγιες ψυχές!”

Work Poverty Capitalism

Book:The Right To Be Lazy

Source: The Right To Be Lazy

“A poor man is a living dead one.”

Death Poverty

Book:Bread Givers

Source: Bread Givers

“Leftovers are less tasty if they were left over by someone else, unless you are poor.”

Poor Poverty Food Delicious Starvation Tasty Leftovers Yummy Starve Poverty Stricken Flavorful Mouthwatering Palatable Toothsome Appetizing Finger Licking Flavourful Scrumptious

Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Not every poor or unemployed person who has one wears a political party’s t-shirt to reveal their political affiliation; some use it merely to conceal their nipples.”

“But apparently you don't need dot-com wealth to ruin an area for its low-income residents. The Pioneer Press quotes Secretary of HUD Andrew Cuomo ruing the "cruel irony" that prosperity is shrinking the stock of affordable housing nationwide: "The stronger the economy, the stronger the upward pressure on rents.”

Poverty Gentrification Rent Barbara Ehrenreich Nickel And Dimed

Book:Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America

Source: Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America

“She fell on the bread and cheese as if she were a lioness. Did lions eat cheese? He didn’t know. He knew Mrs Prater’s kitten ate cheese. He ate anything. Poor bloody animal. Still, he was a slum cat, no reason why his life should be better than a humans' sad ruddy existence.”

Poverty Inequality Cats Slums

Book:Jack the Ripper: The Long Arm of the Law

Source: Jack the Ripper: The Long Arm of the Law

“Every condition exists,” Martin Luther King Jr. once wrote, “simply because someone profits by its existence. This economic exploitation is crystallized in the slum.” Exploitation. Now, there’s a word that has been scrubbed out of the poverty debate.”

Poverty Social Justice Exploitation

Book:Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

Source: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

“Now, where are [Mexican illegal immigrants] fleeing from? Mostly from Central America, where they’re fleeing from the results of our policies.”

War Poverty Power Republican Democrat Greed Conservative Immigration Imperialism Liberal Eye Opening Sad Truth

Author:Noam Chomsky

“I always worried because whenever a drought struck, an accursed storm of blood always followed.”

Poverty Violence Agriculture Drought

Book:Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 104, May 2015

Source: Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 104, May 2015

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