“We live in a world with serious class complexes. It is one thing to be a college student with loan debts and another thing to be just dirt poor for your entire life. The challenge is to come up with more complex understandings of where we are, more global awareness of what connects Americans with what is happening with suffering and oppressed people all around the world.” PeopleWorldSufferingUnderstandingChallengesPoorClassOne ThingAwarenessStudentsCollegeSeriousHappeningsComplexesCome UpDebtAround The WorldDirtOppressedLoanCollege Students Author:Bell Hooks
“No matter what is happening in life or in the world - war, natural disaster, poor health, pain, the death of loved ones - if existence is filled with art, music and literature, life will be fulfilling, a joy.” IfsWorldArtWarMatterPainJoyLiteratureNaturalPoorExistenceHappeningsNo Matter WhatFilledDisasterWar Of The WorldsLoved OnesDeath Of A Loved OneFulfillingNatural DisasterArt MusicPoor Health Author:Karen DeCrow
“My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak. What I see in my country, progressively over these years, is that the rich have got richer, the poor have got poorer. The rich have become indifferent through a philosophy of greed, and the poorer have become hopeless because they're not properly cared for. That's actually something that is happening in many Western societies. Your own, I am told, is not free from it.” YearsFirstsCountryPhilosophyCarePoorRichProtectHappeningsWeakWesternGreedDefinitionsTake CareDecentHopelessLoserIndifferentWestern Society Author:John le Carre
“War in its essence is another form of capitalism. Wars make people rich - and they make a lot of people poor, and they take a lot of people's lives away from them. So much of the war that is happening is the attempt of one group to snatch the resources of another group.” PeopleWarFormPoorRichGroupsHappeningsCapitalismResourcesEssence Author:Bell Hooks
“I feel good when I'm engaged in what I think are the core issues of the society, and those core issues to me are what's happening to poor folks in this society.” ThinkingFeelsPoorPowerfulIssuesHappeningsFolksCoreFeel GoodEngagedThis SocietyI Feel Good Author:Barack Obama
“This erosion of the middle class is happening all over the place. The opening of a wider gap between rich and poor is always accompanied by such a process.” ProcessPoorClassRichMiddleHappeningsOpeningMiddle ClassGapsRich And PoorErosion Author:Susan George
“It's the difference between hunting a lion and hunting a deer. If someone hunts a lion, it's like: "Wow, they're brave!" But if they're hunting a deer it's like: "That poor deer!" I know that. I know that guys getting killed is horrible but people have seen it before. You've seen The Evil Dead. With girls, it's like: "I don't want to see that happening..." I know that.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantGuyGirlEvilDifferencesPoorHappeningsBraveHorribleLionsWowHuntingHuntsThat GuyDeerEvil Dead Author:Eli Roth
“Lobbyists in Washington are making six figure salaries selling our government out to the corporate interests and we just sit and smile as if nothing is happening while the poor folks are getting poorer and their pharmaceutical bills rise.” IfsGovernmentInterestPoorFiguresSixHappeningsBillsFolksSellingCorporateSalaryLobbyistsPharmaceutical Author:Hal Holbrook
“My johns adored and worshipped me, therefore they empowered me. When I was 18, 19, and 20, I had a poor self-image and needed attention. It's hard for people who haven't been prostitutes to imagine, but I think it's often true. There can be a very symbiotic relationship happening.” PeopleThinkingSelfHardPoorAttentionImagineHavensNeededHappeningsEmpoweredPoor Self Image Author:Annie Sprinkle
“All of this is happening because there has still been no reckoning post the financial crisis. So governments have fallen, one bloke has been to prison, the banks have gone pretty well back to status quo, the rich are getting richer, and the poor are getting poorer. And it's fuelling anger. And somehow [Donald] Trump, who represents the worst aspects of capitalism, has persuaded people he can deal with that.” PeopleWellsHas BeensStillsGovernmentPoorDealsGoneRichWorstTrumpHappeningsCapitalismAspectCrisisPrisonFinancialPostsFallenStatus QuoGet RichFinancial CrisisReckoningBlokes Author:Alastair Campbell
“The capitalist system is about taking from the Earth and from the other great commodity, labour. What's happening with this system is that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, and the only way out of it is supposed to be growth. But growth is debt. It's going to make the situation worse.” WayEarthGrowthPoorSituationRichHappeningsDebtSupposed To BeLabourCapitalistCommodity Author:Vivienne Westwood
“Of course it’s the apparently tranquil periods that deceive us. Though our instruments or our senses or our wits may not be able to see the processes that are leading toward these clusters of events, they’re happening. The star, the wheel, the butterfly—all are in a subtle state of unrest, waiting for the moment when some invisible mechanism signals that the time has come. Then the star explodes; the wheel makes poor men rich; the butterfly mates and dies.” MenMayStatesMomentsAbleDiesCoursesStarsWaitingProcessPoorRichEventsPeriodsHappeningsInstrumentsWitSensesInvisibleWheelsSubtleMatesMechanismButterflyDeceivingSignalsPoor ManTranquilUnrestClusters Author:Clive Barker
“Seeking the face of God in everything, everyone, all the time, and his hand in every happening; This is what it means to be contemplative in the heart of the world. Seeing and adoring the presence of Jesus, especially in the lowly appearance of bread, and in the distressing disguise of the poor.” WorldHeartMeanHandsFacesJesusPoorSeeingHappeningsSeekingAppearanceBreadContemplationDisguiseContemplativeDistressing Author:Mother Teresa
“When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: If you look at the science about what is happening on earth and aren’t pessimistic, you don’t understand data. But if you meet the people who are working to restore this earth and the lives of the poor, and you aren’t optimistic, you haven’t got a pulse.” PeopleIfsWorldLooksEarthOrderJusticeAnswersPoorGraceHavensThis WorldWillingDespairHappeningsOrdinaryOptimisticDataOddsOrdinary PeoplePulsePessimisticSemblance Author:Paul Hawken