“The United States, which has been called the home of the persecuted and the dispossessed, has been since its founding an asylum for emotional orphans. For over three hundred years, refugees from political oppression, religious persecution, famine, poverty, and a rigid class system which limited educational and economic opportunities have been leaving their native villages and cities and coming to the United States in search of freedom and a better life.” YearsHas BeensStatesHomePoliticalThreeOpportunityReligiousUnitedCitiesClassPovertyUnited StatesEconomicEmotionalHundredLeavingEducationalOppressionNativeVillagePersecutionFoundingRefugeeBetter LifeFamineOrphanAsylumsPersecutedClass SystemReligious PersecutionPolitical Oppression Author:Eileen Simpson
“With five to ten hundred pure-minded young women threading the streets of the village every evening unattended, vice must slink away, like frost before the rising sun.” YoungSunFiveStreetsCrimePureTenHundredRoseVicesEveningRisingVillageYoung WomenFrost Book:A Voice from the South Source: A Voice from the South
“India's way is not Europe's. India is not Calcutta and Bombay. India lives in her seven hundred thousand villages.” WayThousandHundredEuropeIndiaSevenVillageCalcuttaBombay Book:Collected Works Source: Collected Works
“People must understand the Clean Ganga program, as an economic activity also. The Gangetic plains account for 40% of our population. They have over one hundred towns, and thousands of villages.” PeopleEconomicActivityHundredEmpowermentProgramAccountsIndiaTownsCleanPopulationVillage Author:Narendra Modi
“I was born in a family of landless peasants, in Azinhaga, a small village in the province of Ribatejo, on the right bank of the Almonda River, around a hundred kilometres north-east of Lisbon.” BornHundredRiversEastVillagePeasantsProvincesSmall VillagesNorth East Author:Jose Saramago
“I've had some amazing people in my life. Look at my father - he came from a small fishing village of five hundred people and at six foot four with giant ears and a kind of very odd expression, thought he could be a movie star. So go figure, you know?” PeopleKnowsLooksKindFatherStarsFiveFourFeetFiguresExpressionSixHundredEarsOddGiantsFishingVillageMovie StarAmazing People Author:Kiefer Sutherland
“In many ways, Eulah-Beulah prepared me for literary criticism. After having a two-hundred-pound babysitter fart on your face and yell Pow!, The Village Voice holds few terrors.” WayTwoFacesVoiceHundredCriticismPreparedTerrorPoundsVillageYour FaceFartLiterary CriticismBabysitterPow Author:Stephen King