“The great have private feelings of their own, to which the interests of humanity and justice must curtsy. Their interests are so far from being the same as those of the community, that they are in direct and necessary opposition to them; their power is at the expense of OUR weakness; their riches of OUR poverty; their pride of OUR degradation; their splendour of OUR wretchedness; their tyranny of OUR servitude.” FeelingsHumanityInterestCommunityJusticePovertyPrideWeaknessDirectRichesTyrannyOppositionExpensesDegradationServitudeWretchednessSplendour Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“Everyone knew that democracy - direct rule by all the people - required such spartan, soul-denying virtue on the part of all the people that it was likely to survive only where poverty made upright behavior necessary for the perpetuation of the race.” PeopleMadeRacePovertyVirtueDemocracyBehaviorDirect Author:Bernard Bailyn
“It would be hard to find a single instance of a direct assault by positive effort upon poverty, vice, and misery which has not either failed or, if it has not failed directly and entirely, has not entailed other evils greater than the one which it removed.” IfsHardWould BeEvilEffortPovertyGreaterDirectMiseryVicesInstanceAssault Author:William Graham Sumner
“For Jesus, it is clear, poverty is not the problem; it is the solution. Until human beings learn to live in naked contact and direct simplicity and equality with each other, sharing all resources, there can be no solution to the misery of the human condition and no establishment of God's kingdom. Jesus' radical and paradoxical sense of who could and who could not enter the Kingdom is even more clearly illustrated by his famous praise of children.” HumansChildrenProblemJesusHuman BeingsPovertyClearConditionsSolutionsResourcesDirectPraiseMiserySimplicityKingdomsNakedContactRadicalEstablishmentHuman ConditionParadoxical Author:Andrew Harvey
“There is direct correlation between a society lacking in artistic vision to lack of social conscience, i.e., crime, poverty, and senseless, violent atrocities, materialism.” SocialVisionPovertyCrimeConscienceDirectViolentArtisticMaterialismLackingAtrocitiesCorrelationArtistic Vision Author:Vanna Bonta
“I had a real come-to-Jesus a couple of years ago when I started to see the direct line between feminism and everything else - feminism and climate change, feminism and poverty, feminism and hunger - and it was almost like I was born again and started walking down the street and was like, "Oh, my God, there are women everywhere! They're just everywhere you look. There's women all over the place!"” YearsLooksRealJesusBornLinesPovertyFeminismStreetsCoupleWalkingYears AgoDirectClimateClimate ChangeHungerBorn Again Author:Amanda Palmer
“I say to the Christians and to every missionary on the reservations, you're welcome to have a church here if you can support yourself. But if these churches can't support themselves, then take the hint and quit using our poverty for your direct mail solicitations.” IfsChristianChurchPovertySupportDirectQuittingWelcomeMissionaryMailHintsReservationsYou Re WelcomeSolicitation Author:Russell Means