Empowering Quotes
In regard to 'charity' given by Starbucks in lieu of fair trade prices he said:- "If we are paid a (coffee) price which is decent, the people can make the bridge on their own… We don't have to always be beggars." By: Tadesse Meskela (head of the Oromia Coffee Farmers Union, Ethiopia)
Our desire is not that others might be relieved while you are hard pressed, but that there might be equality. At the present time your plenty will supply what they need, so that in turn their plenty will supply what you need.... By: Paul the apostle 2 Corinthians 8:13-14
10All they asked was that we should continue to remember the poor, the very thing I was eager to do. By: Paul the apostle, Galatians 2:10
"Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to... By: Isaiah 58
Among the poor he had expected defeat and despair; he found some, yes; but he also found strength and hope and courage. Among the rich he expected satisfaction, and instead found boredom, alienation and decadence. (‘Soul... By: Philip Yancey
True kindness dignifies the person we want to help. By: Evelyn Miranda-Feliciano
"Just as water from the driest regions of the earth flows into the
ocean where already there is plenty, so wealth flows from the poorest…
into the hands of those… who are already wealthy"
By: Julius K Nyerere
"… just as the ‘propertied classes’ of yesteryear opposed every reform and predicted imminent economic disaster if 8 year olds could no longer work in the mills so today those groups that profit from the poverty that keeps people... By: Susan George "How the other half Dies"
It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor. By: Seneca
My major problem with the world is a problem of scarcity in the midst of plenty ... of people starving while there are unused resources ... people having skills which are not being used. By: Milton Friedman
