“If we're all led to believe that poverty is just a matter of laziness or stupidity or whatever other justifications we can come up with, then we're not likely to be in a real position to do much about it when it comes to attacking the root cause of the problem. Instead of demanding a more equitable system for the distribution of social and economic goods, we blame the victim. This is insidious, because ideology is something we carry around with us in our heads; it forms the basis of our day-to-day understanding of the world.” IfsWorldBelieveRealMatterProblemFormSocialCausesUnderstandingPovertyEconomicPositionRootsBasesVictimBlameCome UpStupidityIdeologyGoodsLazinessJustificationDay To DayDistributionAttackingInsidiousEquitableRoot Cause Book:Making a Killing: The Political Economy of Animal Rights Source: Making a Killing: The Political Economy of Animal Rights
“Who takes the blame: the leader who talks of poverty but lives in luxury, or the poor who choose a leader of that type?” PoorLeaderPovertyTypeBlameLuxury Author:Goparaju Ramachandra Rao
“It seems far-fetched, even preposterous, to blame the global economic order for the persistence of severe poverty in countries that are ruled by obvious thugs and crooks.” CountrySeemsOrderPovertyEconomicBlameObviousPersistenceSevereThugCrooksEconomic Order Author:Thomas Pogge
“... what's been building since the 1980's is a new kind of social Darwinism that blames poverty and crime and the crisis of our youth on a breakdown of the family. That's what will last after this flurry on family values.” KindLastsValuesPoliticsSocialFamilyPovertyCrimeYouthBuildingCrisisBlameBreakdownDarwinismFamily ValuesSocial Darwinism Author:Stephanie Coontz
“It seems to me that large numbers of people are now paying attention to poverty and that large numbers now understand that blaming the poor and the insecure for being poor and insecure is as unseemly as is schoolyard bullying. In that realization lies hope for a reinvigorated discourse around poverty and inequity in modern-day America.” PeopleLyingPoorAttentionPovertyBlameRealizationPay AttentionBullyingInsecure Author:Sasha Abramsky
“If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.” IfsEnoughSeemsPoorPovertyPoetBlameCreatorRichesDaily Life Author:Rainer Maria Rilke