“We wanted to describe society from our left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.” PeopleBookStatesStoriesShowsWantedPoliticalLeftViewsPovertyWrittenCrimeReaderPoint Of ViewWelfareOfficialsCopiesLayersRealisedBrutalitySwedenWelfare StateCriminality Author:Maj Sjowall
“Isn't it sad, that in a time when we face so many devastating problems - poverty, HIV/AIDS, war and conflict - that in our Communion we should be investing so much time and energy on disagreement about sexual orientation? [The Communion, which] used to be known for embodying the attribute of comprehensiveness, of inclusiveness, where we were meant to accommodate all and diverse views, saying we may differ in our theology but we belong together as sisters and brothers [now seems] hell-bent on excommunicating one another. God must look on and God must weep.” ShouldLooksMayWarProblemSeemsTogetherFacesUsedEnergyViewsKnownPovertyHellBrotherConflictInvestingAidsTheologyUsed To BeAttributesDiverseCommunionBentBrothers And SistersDisagreementHivOrientationAccommodateTime And EnergyHiv AidsInclusiveness Author:Desmond Tutu
“I utterly reject the view that the Third World is doomed to poverty and starvation. Not only is this wrong, I think this attitude verges on the immoral, like thinking that slavery is an unalterable facet of the human condition so why bother doing anything about it?” ThinkingWorldHumansViewsAttitudePovertyConditionsThirdsSlaveryBotherRejectsHuman ConditionDoomedImmoralStarvationThird WorldVergeFacetsWhy Bother Author:Alex Tabarrok
“It's come around to that point of view at the end of a long evolutionary process, in which the rule of law has slowly been replaced by giant idiosyncratic bureaucracies that are designed to criminalize failure, poverty, and weakness on the one hand, and to immunize strength, wealth, and success on the other.” LongEndsHandsLawProcessWealthViewsPovertyWeaknessPoint Of ViewGiantsReplacedBureaucracyRule Of LawWealth And Success Book:The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap Source: The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap
“I am going to do my best to try to create a country in which children are not living in poverty, in which kids can go to college, in which old people have health care. Will I succeed? I can't guarantee you that, but I can tell you that from a human point of view it is better to show up than to give up.” PeopleGivingTryingHumansChildrenI CanCountryShowsCareKidsViewsPovertyCollegeSucceedGiving UpPoint Of ViewHealth CareGuaranteesOld PeopleGiving Up Is Not An Option Author:Bernie Sanders
“If I were an immigrant Latino not born in the US, I could not have written Searching for Whitopia: An Improbably Journey to the Heart of America book. And that is because many of the Whitopians would not have been comfortable talking about their views on immigration, talking about their views on taxes. And they wouldn't have spilled to me the new script on race and poverty as they did.” IfsHeartHas BeensBookAmericaBornViewsRaceTalkingPovertyWrittenJourneyTaxesComfortableScriptsImmigrationImmigrantsLatino Author:Richard Benjamin
“We need to ask the moral questions: Do I have a right to be rich? And do I have a right to be content living in a world with so much poverty and inequality? These questions motivate us to view the issue of inequality as central to human living.” WorldNeedsHumansAsksViewsMoralPovertyIssuesRichInequality Author:Amartya Sen
“I actually believe that some residue of discrimination would lessen, because it's my view that there is a certain percentage of the white population that stereotypes and makes assumptions about African Americans because they don't inject the history of slavery and Jim Crow into current incarceration rates, or crime rates, or poverty rates, or what have you.” BelieveCertainWhiteViewsPovertyCrimeSlaveryRatePopulationCurrentsDiscriminationAfrican AmericanAssumptionStereotypePercentagesCrowIncarcerationJim CrowCrime Rates Author:Barack Obama
“I'm proud of [Big] K.R.I.T., I'm proud that the person that came after me shares so many similar views [as mine]. From him being a producer, to him being a God-fearing man - being political in a sense that he wants to see the poverty-stricken do better. He wants to be the spokesperson for them.” MenWantPersonsBigsPoliticalViewsPovertyShareMinesProudProducersGod Fearing Man Author:David Banner
“When I am asked, "What, in your view, is the worst human rights problem in the world today?" I reply: "Absolute poverty." This is not the answer most journalists expect. It is neither sexy nor legalistic. But it is true.” WorldHumansProblemTodayAnswersViewsPovertyRightsWorstAbsolutesHuman RightsSexyJournalistWorld Today Author:Mary Robinson
“Brands must have a point of view on that purposeful engagement, whether it's directed towards the environment, poverty, water as a resource or causes such as breast cancer or education. Merely declaring your commitment to a category or cause will not be enough the distinguish your brand sufficiently to see a return on these well-intended efforts.” WellsEnoughCausesWaterViewsEffortPovertyEnvironmentReturnCommitmentResourcesCancerPoint Of ViewBrandsBreastsCategoriesEngagementBreast CancerDeclaring Author:Simon Mainwaring
“It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity, to reduce them to objects of pity. This has never been clearer than in the view of Africa from the American media, in which we are shown poverty and conflicts without any context.” PeopleHumansEasyPoorViewsPovertyMediaObjectsConflictDignityPityAgencyLackingPoor PeopleBadassHuman DignityPersonal DignityAmerican Media Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“It has always been my view that terrorism is not spawned by the poverty of money; it is spawned by the poverty of dignity. Humiliation is the most underestimated force in international relations and in human relations. It is when people or nations are humiliated that they really lash out and engage in extreme violence.” PeopleHumansForceNationsViewsPovertyViolenceDignityRelationInternationalExtremesTerrorismHumiliationInternational RelationsHuman RelationsHumiliatedLashesUnderestimated Author:Thomas Friedman