“Morality and religion are but words to him who fishes in gutters for the means of sustaining life, and crouches behind barrels in the street for shelter from the cutting blasts of a winter night.” MeanNightBehindsPovertyCuttingStreetsMoralityEthicsWinterFishesShelterBlastBarrelsSustainingGuttersMorality And ReligionWinter NightSustaining Life Author:Horace Greeley
“Income inequality has no necessary connection with poverty, the lack of material resources for a decent life, such as adequate food, shelter, and clothing. A society with great income inequality may have no poor people, and a society with no income inequality may have nothing but poor people.” PeopleMayPoorPovertyMaterialsResourcesConnectionsIncomeInequalityDecentClothingsShelterPoor PeopleAdequateIncome InequalityDecent Life Author:Robert Higgs
“I felt great calmness and perfect peace. I had the feelings of a poor man who has just come under the protection of the Royal Family, and has obtained an annual pension for life-the dreadful fear of poverty and want having left his house for ever; I felt the safety and shelter which the little chickens feel under the wings of the hen. This is what it is to abide under the shadow of the Almighty, and to hide under His wings until all dangers are past.” MenWantFeelsLittlesFeelingsPastHouseLeftFeltPerfectPoorPovertyDangerShadowSafetyWingsProtectionChickensShelterAlmightyRoyalCalmnessPoor ManAnnualsPensionHensRoyal FamilyPerfect Peace Author:Christmas Evans
“Health is certainly more valuable than money; because it is by health that money is procured; but thousands and millions are of small avail to alleviate the protracted tortures of the gout, to repair the broken organs of sense, or resuscitate the powers of digestion. Poverty is, indeed, an evil from which we naturally fly, but let us not run from one enemy to another, nor take shelter in the arms of sickness.” RunningEvilEnemyPovertyMillionsHealthBrokenArmsValuableTortureSicknessOrgansShelterDigestionAlleviateGout Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes
“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
“They have stolen the public lands. They have grasped all to themselves, and by their unprincipled greed brought a crisis of unparalleled distress on forty millions of people, who have natural resources to feed, clothe and shelter the whole human race.” PeopleHumansWholeNaturalRacePovertyMillionsLandResourcesCrisisGreedHuman RaceFortyShelterDistressStolenNatural ResourcesPublic Lands Author:Denis Kearney
“Hungry for love, He looks at you. Thirsty for kindness, He begs of you. Naked for loyalty, He hopes in you. Homeless for shelter in your heart, He asks of you. Will you be that one to Him?” LooksHeartAsksJesusPovertyKindnessLoyaltyHungryNakedShelterHomelessThirstyHungry For Love Book:No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition Source: No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition