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“It is the moving inspiration of our age, the only question worth struggling for: the question of how to lift humanity from poverty and despair.”

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Lucy Parsons

Lucy Parsons (1853-1942) was a prominent American feminist and socialist activist. She actively participated in labor movements and the women's rights movement, making a profound impact on American social change. more

“In some ways it made it easier, focusing solely on the technical problem at hand. She didn’t have to think about the snotty little child empress she was doing it for, or the people starving in the camp outside the blast gate. There are people starving everywhere, she told herself sometimes, when guilt crept close as she lay on her memory-foam mattress, cool filtered air blowing over her, the taste of butter lingering on her tongue.”

Class Poverty

Book:Manhunt

Source: Manhunt

“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.”

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Book:Happiness Will Follow

Source: Happiness Will Follow

“We were poor, but we were happy. We didn’t have much, but we were painting. (Interview in Washington Mag)”

Art Happiness Artist Poverty Painting Paint Happy Artists

Author:Alfredo Arreguin

“Although we are all brothers, some die of hunger and of foodstuffs, clothing and shoes. And with so many naked and bare-while what is useful and necessary rots at the depots and warehouses”

Poverty Hunger

Author:Luisa Capetillo

“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

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