“Environmentalism is a luxury. Just like being a vegetarian is a luxury. When you have to worry about eating - you're not going to be worried about where the food's coming from, or who made your shoes. Poverty, whether planned or not planned, is a way of making environmentalism moot.” WayMadePovertyWorryEatingShoesLuxuryWorriedVegetarianEnvironmentalism Author:Sherman Alexie
“In my grandmother's house there was always chicken soup And talk of the old country--mud and boards, Poverty, The snow falling down and necks of lovers.” CountryFallHousePovertyLoversEatingDown AndSnowBoardsNecksGrandmotherChickensSoupMudMy GrandmotherFalling DownSnow FallingChicken Soup Book:The Owner of the House: New Collected Poems, 1940-2001 Source: The Owner of the House: New Collected Poems, 1940-2001
“Private enterprise is not as spectacular nor as easy to see as the socialist way of temporarily diffusing poverty by eating up the seed corn - the tools - which will increase poverty in the long run.” WayLongRunningEasyPovertyEatingToolsIncreaseSeedsEnterpriseLong RunsSocialistCornSpectacularPrivate Enterprise Author:Raymond C. Hoiles
“The thing about superheroes is that they don't have problems, right? A feminist hooker superhero wouldn't have to worry about assault, or pregnancy, or poverty, or disease, or eating and shelter, or police. In order to make her a superhero, you have to divorce her of the very context that makes her story possible. You have to gloss over the trauma.” StoriesProblemOrderPovertyWorryDiseaseEatingPoliceFeministDivorceTraumaPregnancyShelterAssaultSuperheroGloss Author:Daphne Gottlieb
“I was advocating for world peace, but I was waging a violent war against my own body. I was speaking about poverty and starvation, but I was eating more than my fair share. I was a hypocrite.” WorldWarBodyMy OwnPovertyShareEatingFairsViolentHypocriteStarvationAdvocatingFair Share Author:Bryant H. McGill