"… 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 hungry are attempting to maintain the status quo between rich and poor world’s"

By: Susan George "How the other half Dies"

"Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity, it is an act of justice"

By: Nelson Mandela at the Live 8 concert July 2005

We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition.

By: William James