{"quotes":[{"text":"If you are poor and go without food and clothes, don't hope for wealth in paradise, you are already forsaken.","author":"Bangambiki Habyarimana","tags":["heaven","heaven-and-hell","heaven-on-earth","heaven","heavenly","heavenly-father","heavenly-rewards","heavens","paradise","paradise-on-earth","paradise","paradises","poor","poor-people","poor","poverty","poverty-alleviation","poverty-inequality","poverty-line","poverty","poverty-stricken","poverty-wealth","wealth-in-paradise"],"id":41980,"author_id":"Bangambiki+Habyarimana"},{"text":"Greed applied is prosperity realized'. ~R. Alan Woods [2006].","author":"R. Alan Woods","tags":["greed","greed-good","poverty","poverty-wealth","prosperity","r-alan-woods"],"id":71161,"author_id":"R.+Alan+Woods"},{"text":"We live in a world where a hut made of clay is more durable than brick buildings, because poverty doesn't allow it to be reconstructed.","author":"Munia Khan","tags":["allow","brick","building","buildings","clay","durable","hut","live","live-life","made","more","mud","philosophical","poor","poverty","poverty-wealth","reconstructed","reconstruction","third-world","wisdom","wisdom","world"],"id":73455,"author_id":"Munia+Khan"},{"text":"I knew, of course, that I should be well paid for my services, but I would gladly have accepted half the sum I expected if I could have had it that night, for our little treasury was wholly exhausted, and we had not sixpence to purchase a breakfast for the following day. When the great hall door shut upon me, and I found myself on the pavement, with all the luxury and splendour on one side, and I and my desolation on the other, the contrast struck me cruelly, for I too, had been rich, and dwelt in illuminated palaces, and had a train of liveried servants at my command, and sweet music had echoed through my halls. I felt desperate, and drawing my hat over my eyes I began pacing the square, forming wild plans for the relief or escape from my misery. ('The Italian's Story').","author":"Catherine Crowe","tags":["poverty","poverty-wealth"],"id":176241,"author_id":"Catherine+Crowe"},{"text":"I hate my country. There are so many rich people who don't share their shit. They're like spoiled little ten-year-old bullies on the playground. They hog the monkey bars and the slide and the seesaw. And if you complain even a little bit, if you try to get just one spin on the merry-go-round, the bullies beat the shit out of you.","author":"Sherman Alexie","tags":["bullies","class-divide","class-warfare","greed","poverty","poverty-wealth","rich-vs-poor","wealth"],"id":223774,"author_id":"Sherman+Alexie"},{"text":"Our highest deeds come from helping the lowest people.","author":"Matshona Dhliwayo","tags":["benevolence","charity","deed","faith","generosity","giving","goodness","happiness","happiness","help","helping-hand","helping-others","inspirational","inspirational","inspirational-motivation","life","life","life-and-sayings","poor-people","poverty-alleviation","poverty-and-politics","poverty-inequality","poverty-of-a-nation","poverty","poverty-wealth","spiritual","spiritual","spirituality","virtue"],"id":440369,"author_id":"Matshona+Dhliwayo"},{"text":"Christie: “Even if he is – aren’t you the one who’s always saying we shouldn’t trust the wealthy, that they became that way by walking on the backs of the poor?","author":"William Carmichael","tags":["oppression","poverty-inequality","poverty-wealth","wealthy-oppress-the-poor"],"id":476314,"author_id":"William+Carmichael"},{"text":"Silently, sadly, the earth covered life coinage is read both ways; so much vs. So little and…so little vs. …so much!","author":"Wes Adamson","tags":["division-of-wealth","materialism","poverty-wealth"],"id":478097,"author_id":"Wes+Adamson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":8,"pages":1}}