“When you look at what [new generation] believe in, how they value diversity, how they believe in science, how they care about the environment, how they believe in, you know, everybody getting a fair shot, how they believe in not discriminating against people for sexual orientation and you know, their belief that we have to work with other countries to create a more peaceful world and to alleviate poverty, that's the majority an entire generation that's coming up behind us.” PeopleKnowsWorldBelieveLooksCountryCareValuesBeliefBehindsPovertyEnvironmentGenerationsDiversityShotsFairsMajorityPeacefulOther CountriesBelieve In YouOrientationNew GenerationAlleviatePeaceful World Author:Barack Obama
“Today there are a huge number of think tanks working on poverty-related issues; there are books written on the topic; and university centers being created to study poverty. But, at the same time, the media has a terribly hard time with this issue; it's very hard to convince editors and publishers to devote resources to complex investigations of the lives of America's poor. And, as a result, too often poverty is portrayed in stereotypes, in sound bites, in a few pat images rather than in its full Technicolor complexity and diversity.” ThinkingBookTodayPoorPovertyStudyDiversityComplexityHard TimesConvinceStereotype Author:Sasha Abramsky
“Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.” ThinkingPersonsCompassionPovertyGreaterSadDiversityForgottenHungerSympathyUnwantedUnlovedBeing SadGreat MotherUncaringHunger And PovertyHunger PovertyHunger For LoveBeing Unloved Author:Mother Teresa
“Herein lies the tragedy of the age: Not that men are poor, - all men know something of poverty. Not that men are wicked, - who is good? Not that men are ignorant, - what is truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men.” KnowsMenLittlesAgeLyingCultureBlackPoorPovertyKnowledgeDiversityTragedySocial JusticeIgnorantWickedBlack History Author:W. E. B. Du Bois
“Live simply so that others may simply live.” MaySpiritualSimplePovertyDiversitySimplicityChristian InspirationalSimple LifeSimplifySimple ThingsMinimalismSimple LivingEnding PovertyWorld PovertyLiving A Simple LifeLive SimplyGlobal PovertySimplifying LifeSimplifying Your LifeTiny Houses Author:Mahatma Gandhi
“The "discovery" of poverty at the beginning of the 1960s was something like the "discovery" of America almost five hundred years earlier. In the case of each of these exotic terrains, plenty of people were on the site before the discoverers ever arrived.” PeopleYearsAmericaCulturePovertyCasesFiveDiversityHundredDiscoverySocial JusticePlentySite1960sExoticTerrainDiscovery Of America Book:FEAR OF FALLING Source: FEAR OF FALLING