Poverty
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 Poverty  (enemy image)   | |
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| Interest of | • Martha Farah • Oxfam |
| In cultures which celebrate wealth, especially money, poverty is an enemy image, associated with tropes of laziness and stupidity. | |
Poverty is the state of being poor. In cultures which celebrate wealth, especially money, it is an enemy image, associated with tropes of laziness and stupidity.
US
"Some 40% of Americans would struggle to come up with even $400 to pay for an unexpected bill."[1]
Related Quotations
| Page | Quote | Author | Date |
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| Eugene Debs | “Getting a living under capitalism... is so precarious, so uncertain, fraught with such pain and struggle that the wonder is not that so many people become vicious and criminal, but that so many remain in docile submission to such a tyrannous and debasing condition.” | Eugene Debs | |
| Financial system | “The key master lie is this one:- that the politically-imposed (not economically-) the politically-imposed global corporate system calling itself the "global free market", that that politically-imposed global corporate system equals the "free market" equals democracy equals a solution to poverty.” | John McMurtry | 2001 |
| Eduardo Galeano | “"Fleas dream of buying themselves a dog, and nobodies dream of escaping poverty: that, one magical day, good luck will suddenly rain down on them – will rain down in buckets. But good luck doesn’t rain down, yesterday, today, tomorrow or ever. Good luck doesn’t even fall in a fine drizzle, no matter how hard the nobodies summon it, even if their left hand is tickling, or if they begin the new day on their right foot, or start the new year with a change of brooms. The nobodies: nobody’s children, owners of nothing. The nobodies: the no-ones, the nobodied, running like rabbits, dying through life, screwed every which way. Who are not, but could be. Who don’t speak languages, but dialects. Who don’t have religions, but superstitions. Who don’t create art, but handicrafts. Who don’t have culture, but folklore. Who are not human beings, but human resources. Who do not have faces, but arms. Who do not have names, but numbers. Who do not appear in the history of the world, but in the crime reports of the local paper. The nobodies, who are not worth the bullet that kills them.” | Eduardo Galeano | |
| Immigrant | “I remain incensed at the success of the elite in conning the deprived that their poverty is caused by immigrants, whereas it is caused by massive inequality of wealth.” | Craig Murray | 16 December 2018 |
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