“What we try to do as Elders is help those who are trying to change their own societies and communities for the better. We hope that by supporting the good work that is being done, especially at the grass roots, we can help to alleviate the suffering of human beings. That is our core mission - to draw attention to the impact that conflict, injustice and poverty have on ordinary people.” PeopleTryingHumansDoneHelpingSufferingCommunityHuman BeingsAttentionPovertyConflictDrawsOrdinaryRootsImpactInjusticeMissionsCoreGrassGood WorkOrdinary PeopleEldersBeing DoneTrying To ChangeAlleviate Author:Desmond Tutu
“poverty is like a pain, dormant and unbearable as long as you don't move about too much. You grow used to it, you end up by paying no attention to it. But once you presume to bring it out in the daylight, it becomes terrifying, you see it at last in all its squalor and you shrink from exposing it to the sun.” LongEndsPainLastsMovingUsedGrowsAttentionPovertySunToo MuchShrinksUnbearableDaylightExposingDormantSqualor Author:Gabrielle Roy
“Capitalism with near-full employment was an impressive spectacle. But a growth in wealth is not at all the same thing as reducing poverty. A universal paean was raised in praise of growth. Growth was going to solve all problems. No need to bother about poverty. Growth will lift up the bottom and poverty will disappear without any need to pay attention to it. The economists, who should have known better, fell in with the same cry.” NeedsShouldProblemGrowthWealthPayAttentionKnownPovertyCryCapitalismEconomicsShould HaveUniversalPraiseRaisedBottomSolveDisappearEmploymentLiftsPay AttentionBotherEconomistImpressiveReducingShould Have KnownShould Have Known BetterReducing Poverty Book:Contributions to Modern Economics Source: Contributions to Modern Economics
“When I wrote 'The Giver,' it contained no so-called 'bad words.' It was set, after all, in a mythical, futuristic, and Utopian society. Not only was there no poverty, divorce, racism, sexism, pollution, or violence in the world of 'The Giver'; there was also careful attention paid to language: to its fluency, precision, and power.” WorldLanguageAttentionPovertyViolenceRacismPaidCarefulDivorceSexismPollutionGiverPrecisionUtopianFuturisticBad WordFluency Author:Lois Lowry
“Instead of concentrating on the war against poverty, global attention is focused on another kind of slaughter - on something that is intangible and yet being tackled by all the possible military means we can muster. And all the lofty declarations by world leaders about combatting poverty that were lauded by the General Assembly turned out to be damp squibs.” WorldKindMeanWarAttentionLeaderPovertyMilitaryFocusedDeclarationAssemblySlaughterLoftyConcentratingIntangibleWorld LeaderDampMusterGeneral Assembly Author:Muhammad Yunus
“But will this attention to poverty be sustained or transient? That depends on our leaders - whether we step up and sustain our moral commitment as the country's conscience would naturally want us to do.” WantCountryAttentionLeaderMoralStepsPovertyDependsConscienceCommitmentWant UStep UpTransient Author:John Edward
“A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.” WealthAttentionPovertyInformationProductivityRationalityInformation OverloadOverabundance Author:Herbert Simon