poor-people

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469fcad	Rich men have dreams. Poor men die to make them come true.	dreams poor-people rich-people poor	Glen Cook
b534708	It is a beautiful thing to be on fire for justice... there is no greater joy than inspiring and empowering others--especially the least of these, the precious and priceless wretched of the earth!	social-justice joy humanity inspiration empowerment antiracism black-prophetic-fire economic-disparity impoverishment political-motivation political-movements poor-people social-movements social-injustice servant-leadership democracy	Cornel West
5c2154c	What's missing from the literature of our species are the stories of the peasants. The filthy illiterate. Those with no firm address, no surname. No one to impress, nothing to lose. But the poor tell stories, too.	literature stories-of-people poor-people nutcracker stories	Gregory Maguire
99c5144	The impoverished always try to keep moving, as if relocating might help.	poverty poor-people	Markus Zusak
b061428	The men in Washington seem unable to accept that there are more poor people than rich peoplele in the world. They do not recognize that poor people, in the late twentieth century, cannot endure poverty and disease and ignorance forever. When minimal social justice is long denied, the poor will rebel. If rebellion can be crushed - as is perhaps possible in a very small country like El Salvador - it will rise again later. Nicaragua can be bombed flat, and then what? A success story like Vietnam? [1986].	rebellion poverty nicaragua poor-people rich-people	Martha Gellhorn

Rich men have dreams. Poor men die to make them come true.

Glen Cook

b534708

It is a beautiful thing to be on fire for justice... there is no greater joy than inspiring and empowering others--especially the least of these, the precious and priceless wretched of the earth!

social-justice joy humanity inspiration empowerment antiracism black-prophetic-fire economic-disparity impoverishment political-motivation political-movements poor-people social-movements social-injustice servant-leadership democracy

Cornel West

5c2154c

What's missing from the literature of our species are the stories of the peasants. The filthy illiterate. Those with no firm address, no surname. No one to impress, nothing to lose. But the poor tell stories, too.

literature stories-of-people poor-people nutcracker stories

Gregory Maguire

99c5144

The impoverished always try to keep moving, as if relocating might help.

poverty poor-people

Markus Zusak

b061428

The men in Washington seem unable to accept that there are more poor people than rich peoplele in the world. They do not recognize that poor people, in the late twentieth century, cannot endure poverty and disease and ignorance forever. When minimal social justice is long denied, the poor will rebel. If rebellion can be crushed - as is perhaps possible in a very small country like El Salvador - it will rise again later. Nicaragua can be bombed flat, and then what? A success story like Vietnam? [1986].

rebellion poverty nicaragua poor-people rich-people

Martha Gellhorn