"If our economic system is to survive, there has to be a better distribution of wealth ... we can't have a system where some people live in superfluous, inordinate wealth, while others live in abject deadening poverty."

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

#People Quotes #Poverty Quotes #Unexpected Quotes

“An attitude of permanent indignation signifies great mental poverty. Politics compels it votaries to take that line and you can see their minds growing more impoverished every day, from one burst of righteous indignation to the next.”
“The urban man is an uprooted tree, he can put out leaves, flowers and grow fruit but what a nostalgia his leaf, flower, and fruit will always have for mother earth!”
“The more lawyers there are, the more people are out there to encourage others not to go to law school.”
“To indicate how large a part of the Earth is covered by the oceans, we might call attention to the fact that a whole hemisphere, with its center near New Zealand, would have only one-tenth of its area as dry land! And the average depth of the seas is over two miles.”
“The war is waged against its own subjects and its object is not the victory...but to keep the very structure of society intact.”
“My mother begged doctors to end her life. She was beyond the physical ability to swallow enough of the weak morphine pills she had around her. When she knew she was dying I promised to make sure she could go at a time of her choosing, but it was impossible. I couldn't help.”

Source : "Cardinals, bishops and doctors must not deny us our last rights" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2006.
“I admire people that help other people without asking anything in return, which is something that's really rare these days and hard to find.”

Source : Source: sea.askmen.com
“People protect what they love.”

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