By defining the problem as "hunger, " the emergency food system is helping to direct our attention away from the more fundamental problem of poverty, and the even more basic problem of inequality.
I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. <span style="margin:15px;...
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Neil Gaiman
Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth,...
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Unknown
The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who...
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Mother Teresa
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
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Woody Allen
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
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Mother Teresa
More Quotes By Janet Poppendieck
By defining the problem as "hunger, " the emergency food system is helping to direct our attention away from the more fundamental problem of poverty, and the even more basic problem of inequality.
Charity is one of those remarkable words that helps to identify the fault lines of a culture.
Charity erodes the cultural prerequisites for a vigorous democracy.
We believe that only government has the capacity--not to mention the political and moral responsibility--to promote the general welfare. Father Kramer as quoted in Sweet Charity?
Emergency food has become very useful indeed, and to a very large assortment of people and institutions. The United States Department of Agriculture uses it to reduce the accumulation of embarrassing agricultural surpluses. Business uses it to dispose of nonstandard or unwanted product, to protect...
