That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten, as in the old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen. —Michael Harrington More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is something about poverty that smells like death. Dead dreams dropping off the heart like leaves in a dry season and rotting around the feet; impulses smothered too long in the fetid air of underground caves. —Zora Neale Hurston More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit. —Eli Khamarov More about this quote Tags: poverty crime punishment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The poor have been sent to the front lines of a federal-budget deficit-reduction war that few other groups were drafted to fight. —Marian Wright Edelman More about this quote Tags: politics poverty budget Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
How come it's a "subsidy" when Pan American Airlines asks the government for a hundred million dollars to keep flying, but when people ask for considerably less to keep going, it is a federal handout? —Russell Baker More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There's a group of Americans who are fully employed. They aren't very well paid or they're not paid at all. They're called mothers, and I've never heard of a mother who wasn't a working mother. And that includes the mothers on welfare. —Theresa Funiciello More about this quote Tags: work USA mothers welfare Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Being a mother is a noble status, right? Right. So why does it change when you put "unwed" or "welfare" in front of it? —Florynce Kennedy More about this quote Tags: nobility marriage motherhood welfare Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The happiest hours of mankind are recorded on the blank pages of history. —Thomas Carlyle More about this quote Tags: history memory happiness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
K is for "Kenghis Khan." He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere. —Harlan Ellison More about this quote Tags: history memory niceness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is up to us; there is no one left to blame. Neither the system, nor our leaders, nor our parents. We can't go out and hang the first amoeba. —Rebecca McClen Novick More about this quote Tags: parents responsibility blame Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What is a minority? The chosen heroes of this earth have been in a minority. There is not a social, political, or religious privilege that you enjoy today that was not bought for you by the blood and tears and patient suffering of the minority. It is the minority that have stood in the vanguard of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world. —John B. Gough More about this quote Tags: history privilege morality suffering nobility heroes conflict minority Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We forget that we ourselves are a part of history, that we are the product of growth and are condemned to perish if we lose the capacity for further growth and change. We are ourselves history and share the responsibility for world history and our position in it. But we gravely lack awareness of this responsibility. —Herman Hesse More about this quote Tags: awareness history change death responsibility growth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You cannot help but learn more as you take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is an old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it. —John Updike More about this quote Tags: learning world reverence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sir Francis Drake circumcized the world with a hundred-foot clipper. —Unknown history student More about this quote Tags: humor misunderstanding Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
History, real solemn history, I cannot be interested in. . . . I read it a little as a duty; but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me. The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the men all so good-for-nothing, and hardly any women at all. —Jane Austen More about this quote Tags: war history power women men kings pestilence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email