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“The poverty of the poor is not a call to generous relief action, but a demand that we go and build a different social order.”

Inspirational Different Action Order Social Change Poor Poverty Society Demand Generous Changing The World Making A Difference Relief Theologian Making Changes Social Order

Author:Gustavo Gutiérrez

“O Poverty, thy thousand ills combined Sink not so deep into the generous mind, As the contempt and laughter of mankind.”

Mind Poverty Mankind Thousand Laughter Generous Contempt

Book:The satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis, tr. into Engl. verse, by W. Gifford, with notes

Source: The satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis, tr. into Engl. verse, by W. Gifford, with notes

“Poverty palls the most generous spirits; it cows industry, and casts resolution itself into despair.”

Spirit Poverty Industry Despair Casts Generous Resolution Cows Generous Spirit

Author:Joseph Addison

“To have an inner life, to think, to juggle and leap, to become a tightrope walker in the world of ideas. To attack, to riposte, to refute, what a contest, what acclaim. To understand. The most generous word of all. Memory. To retain, a geyser of felicity. Intelligence. The agonizing poverty of my mind. Words and ideas flitting in and out like butterflies. My brain a dandelion seed blown in the wind.”

Source: La bâtarde: an autobiography

“We translate into reality thoughts of poverty just as quickly as we do thoughts of riches. But when our attitude toward ourselves is big, and our attitude toward others is generous and merciful, we attract big and generous portions of success.”

Bigs Reality Attitude Poverty Riches Generous Portions Translate Merciful

Author:W. Clement Stone

“Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine.”

People War Suffering Compassion Moral Poverty Disease Blessed Obligation Plenty Generous Famine Moral Obligation Generous People

Author:Adam Schiff

“All of us--all who knew her--felt so wholesome after we cleaned ourselves on her. We were so beautiful when we stood astride her ugliness. Her simplicity decorated us, her guilt sanctified us, her pain made us glow with health, her awkwardness made us think we had a sense of humor. Her inarticulateness made us believe we were eloquent. Her poverty kept us generous. Even her waking dreams we used--to silence our own nightmares.”

Thinking Believe Made Dream Pain Beautiful Used Felt Silence Poverty Guilt Simplicity Generous Nightmare Sense Of Humor Waking Ugliness Eloquent Awkwardness

Book:The Bluest Eye

Source: The Bluest Eye

“But the poor person does not exist as an inescapable fact of destiny. His or her existence is not politically neutral, and it is not ethically innocent. The poor are a by-product of the system in which we live and for which we are responsible. They are marginalized by our social and cultural world. They are the oppressed, exploited proletariat, robbed of the fruit of their labor and despoiled of their humanity. Hence the poverty of the poor is not a call to generous relief action, but a demand that we go and build a different social order.”

“The world is fairly studded and strewn with pennies cast broadside by a generous hand. But- and this is the point- who gets excited by a mere penny? But if you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted in pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days.”

Ifs World Facts Hands Poverty Healthy Findings Mere Lifetime Simplicity Casts Excited Generous Pennies

Book:PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK

Source: PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK