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Mon 26 Feb 2024

Poverty

Posted by PJ under poverty, quote of the day, the rich
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Random quote of the day:

“Poverty is an anomaly to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.”

—Walter Bagehot, ”The Waverly Novels,” The Works and Life of Walter Bagehot, Vol. III

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Thu 27 Jan 2022

Care

Posted by PJ under caring, greed, new york, poverty, quote of the day, selfishness
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Random quote of the day:

“I did not see anything [in New York 1886] to help my people. I could see that the Wasichus [Whites] did not care for each other the way our people did before the nation’s hoop was broken. They would take everything from each other if they could, and so there were some who had more of everything than they could use, while crowds of people had nothing at all and maybe were starving. This could not be better than the old ways of my people.”

―Black Elk, Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux

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Thu 11 Feb 2021

Future

Posted by PJ under future, poverty, privilege, quote of the day, technology
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Random quote of the day:

“The affluent experience the future in the form of technology, while the poor experience the future in the form of calamity.”

—Robert MacFarlane, “What lies beneath,” The Guardian, 20 April 2019

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Fri 2 Oct 2020

Handmaidens

Posted by PJ under poverty, quote of the day, virtue, wealth
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Random quote of the day:

“Patience and latitude and even humility are paradoxically the handmaidens of wealth, because virtue is costly only for those who own nothing else.”

—James Lee Burke, Wayfaring Stranger

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Thu 23 Jul 2020

Disadvantaged

Posted by PJ under black lives matter, justice, poverty, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Disadvantaged white people are not erased by discussions of disadvantages facing people of color, just as brain cancer is not erased by talking about breast cancer. They are two different issues with two different treatments, and they require two different conversations.”

―Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race

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Wed 22 Jul 2020

Elite

Posted by PJ under democracy, poverty, quote of the day, wealth
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Random quote of the day:

“This country has always been run by elite, and it’s an elitist democracy. And that’s not a radical concept. It’s elitist democracy. When people talk about democracy, they don’t talk—really talk about participatory democracy, until the point that we get us at Election Day.”

—Danny Glover, Democracy Now! August 28, 2008

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Fri 14 Dec 2018

Poor

Posted by PJ under poverty, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“To recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.”

—Oscar Wilde, “The Soul of A Man Under Socialism”

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Tue 5 Jun 2018

Poverty

Posted by PJ under crime and punishment, poverty, quote of the day, revolution
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Random quote of the day:

“Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.”

—Aristotle, Politics

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