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“Christina Baker Kline writes exquisitely about two unlikely friends—one, a 91-year-old survivor of the grinding poverty of rural Ireland, immigrant New York and the hardscrabble Midwest; and the other, a casualty of a string of foster homes—each struggling to transcend a past of isolation and hardship. Orphan Train will hold you in its grip as their fascinating tales unfold.”

“There are so many things that are incompatible with a single life. No one can learn fully in one life the lessons of unbroken health and of bodily sickness, of riches and of poverty, of study and action, of comradeship and isolation, of defiance and of obedience, of virtue and of vice.”

Action Poverty Virtue Study Lessons Vices Riches Obedience Isolation Sickness Reincarnation Defiance Single Life Unbroken Comradeship

Author:J. M. E. McTaggart

“Poverty is not simply having no money - it is isolation, vulnerability, humiliation and mistrust.”

Poverty Vulnerability Isolation Humiliation No Money Mistrust

Author:Megan Lee

“With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage. An unsegregated America might see poverty, and all its effects, spread across the country with no particular bias toward skin color. Instead, the concentration of poverty has been paired with a concentration of melanin.”

Has Beens Country Might America Poverty Effects Particular Color Skins Spread Isolation Concentration Bias Segregation Injured Disadvantages Skin Color Melanin

Book:We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy

Source: We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy

“I had a very depressing response because I realized that these were my own people, these were Negroes throwing eggs at me. I'm concerned about the fact that maybe all of us have contributed to this by not working harder to get rid of the conditions, the poverty, the social isolation, and all of the conditions that cause individuals to respond like this.”

People Facts Individual Social Causes My Own Poverty Conditions Concerned Harder Response I Realized Isolation Eggs Throwing Depressing Very Depressing Social Isolation

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“According to UNESCO: there are over 154 million children in the world deprived of education due to poverty, slavery, racism, religious extremism, gender discrimination, and geographical isolation. The cost to educate a child in the third world is about $ 1 per month per child. To achieve global literacy, the investment would be $ 8 billion per year for 15 years.”

World Children Religious Poverty Achieve Racism Slavery Investment Gender Discrimination Isolation Educate Literacy Extremism Religious Extremism

Author:Greg Mortenson

“There is a determined though unseen bravery that defends itself foot by foot in the darkness against the fatal invasions of necessity and dishonesty. Noble and mysterious triumphs that no eye sees, and no fame rewards, and no flourish of triumph salutes. Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields that have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes.”

Source: Les Misérables

“Hideous psychic fallout they'd all endured both in active marijuana-dependency and then in marijuana-detox: the social isolation, anxious lassitude, and the hyperself-consciousness that then reinforced the withdrawal and anxiety - the increasing emotional abstraction, poverty of affect, and then total emotional catalepsy - the obsessive analyzing, finally the paralytic stasis that results from obsessive analysis of all possible implications of both getting up from the couch and not getting up from the couch.”