You can't put a load of rockstars up on a stage and expect to wipe out global poverty. That's ludicrous.
Only FREEDOM has ever been the answer to poverty.
The poor, no less than the rich, stay tuned in to the Dream Machine in bad times as well as good. . . . By 1995, millions of the poor were left without housing, medical care; jobs, or educational opportunity; six million children-one of every four kids under 6 years of age in America-were officially poor. Mired in Third-World conditions of poverty while video-bombarded with First-World dreams, rarely has a population suffered a greater gap between socially cultivated appetites and socially available opportunities.
The programs that came to be known as the New Deal were not simply handed down by the benevolence of FDR and the Democrats. They were fought for. And in the 1960s, it was the similar. You had incredible movements against Jim Crow, poverty and the Vietnam War in the 1960s.
Desires repeatedly mastered for the sake of present duty make us richer. Lack of desire is poverty.
May all your expectations be frustrated, may all your plans be thwarted, may all your desires be withered into nothingness, that you may experience the powerlessness and poverty of a child and sing and dance in the love of God who is the Father, Son and Spirit.
Poverty is not a sin; it is a condition, a circumstance that allows God's work to be displayed.
If we from wealth to poverty descend, Want gives to know the flatterer from the friend.
The way - the principle way that human beings had gotten out of extreme poverty is free trade.
There is nothing new about poverty. What is new, however, is that we have the resources to get rid of it.
Self-taught poverty is a help toward philosophy , for the things which philosophy attempts to teach by reasoning , poverty forces us to practice.
The ratio of boys to girls is bad in three big countries in Asia: China, Vietnam, and India. It's worst in the north of India, where there's horrendous poverty. The number of girls in many of these places is so low that it has social consequences. You get young men without jobs and without women, and this leads to chaos and political danger. But the south of India is very different.
Trans activism in the US has most frequently been grassroots, centered on poverty and criminalization, and often oppositional to the exclusionary "mainstreaming" threads in gay and lesbian politics and feminist politics.
In the United States we have more women in poverty than any other industrialized nation.
The Buddhist version of poverty is a situation where you have nothing to contribute.
We will never end poverty if we don't tackle climate change.
It is unmistakable madness to live in poverty only to die rich.
I believe it is wrong, in a country of such wealth and prosperity, to have 36 million Americans living in poverty.
The perception of poverty as morally intolerable in a rich society had to await the emergence of a rich society
Let us look at wealth and poverty. The affluent society and the deprived society inter-are. The wealth of one society is made of the poverty of the other. "This is like this, because that is like that. " Wealth is made of non-wealth elements, and poverty is made by non-poverty elements. [. . . ] so we must be careful not to imprison ourselves in concepts. The truth is that everything contains everything else. We cannot just be, we can only inter-be. We are responsible fo everything that happens around us.
