{"quotes":[{"text":"Many a rich man’s bed is bigger than many a poor woman’s bedroom; his bedroom, her house.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["affirmative-action","affluence","affluent","bed","bedroom","beggary","broke","capital","cash","cleaned-out","destitute","destitution","dough","equality","filthy-rich","finance-assets","flat-broke","flush","fortune-money","funds","hard-up","hardship","holdings","house","impecunious","impecuniousness","impoverished","impoverishment","in-debt","in-the-money","indigence","indigent","inequality","insolvent","kitchen","loaded","low-income","lucre","made-of-money","means","moneyed","moneyless","moola","moolah","necessitous","need","neediness","needy","opulent","pauperdom","pauperism","pauperized","penniless","pennilessness","penury","poor","possessions","poverty","poverty-stricken","property","prosperity","prosperous","reserves","resources","riches","rolling-in-it","rolling-in-money","rolling-in-the-dough","securities","silk-stocking","size-counts","size-does-not-count","size-doesn-t-count","stinking-rich","stock","strapped-formal-penurious","substance","treasure","unable-to-make-ends-meet","wealthy","well-heeled","well-off","well-to-do","wherewithal","without-a-cent-to-one-s-name","without-a-sou"],"id":180742,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment.","author":"Derrick Jensen","tags":["civilization","entropy","environmental-degradation","global-industrial-economy","impoverishment"],"id":288353,"author_id":"Derrick+Jensen"},{"text":"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!","author":"Cornel West","tags":["african-americans","antiracism","black-prophetic-fire","democracy","economic-disparity","empowerment","humanity","impoverishment","inspiration","joy","political-motivation","political-movements","poor-people","servant-leadership","social-injustice","social-justice","social-movements"],"id":410954,"author_id":"Cornel+West"},{"text":"Once I finally understand the immensity of my own impoverishment, I am finally in a position to see the enormity of God’s majesty.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["awareness","enormity","god","god-s-majesty","honesty","impoverishment","majesty","self-awareness","self-evaluation","self-understanding","transparency"],"id":453864,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":4,"pages":1}}