“With my union project in my hand, from town to town, from one end of France to the other, to talk to the workers who do not know how to read and to those who do not have the time to read....I will go find them in their workshops; in their garrets and even, if needed, in their taverns, and there, face to face with their poverty, I will compel them, in spite of themselves, to escape from this frightful poverty which is degrading and killing them.” IfsKnowsEndsHandsFacesPovertyKnow HowNeededProjectsTownsUnionsWorkersKillingFranceSpiteFace To FaceWorkshopsDegradingTaverns Author:Flora Tristan
“Holiness consists in doing God’s will joyfully. Faithfulness makes saints. The spiritual life is a union with Jesus: the divine and the human giving themselves to each other. The only thing Jesus asks of us is to give ourselves to him, in total poverty and total self-forgetfulness.” GivingHumansSelfSpiritualLife IsAsksJesusPovertyDivineUnionsSaintGods WillHolinessSpiritual LifeFaithfulnessForgetfulnessSelf Forgetfulness Author:Mother Teresa
“Imagine you waking up tomorrow and you can't get a bank account; you can't get a credit union account. Everything has gone away and you're now living in poverty.” PovertyGoneImagineTomorrowAccountsWake UpUnionsCreditWakingBank AccountsGone AwayCredit Unions Author:Suze Orman
“Socialism's failure in the former Soviet Union and in the other socialist countries stands as a clean and unquestionable warning as to which path any rational and sane people should never follow again. Government planning brought poverty and ruin...Unfortunately, America is not absorbing the lessons that should be learned from the socialist experience and, instead, is following the same path of destruction.” PeopleShouldCountryGovernmentAmericaPovertyPathLessonsDestructionUnionsCleanFollowingPlanningSocialismRationalRuinsFormerWarningSovietSaneSocialistSoviet UnionAbsorbingSocialist Countries Author:Richard Ebeling