I’ve never given poor people credit for having noble souls, on the pretext that they are poor and only too well acquainted with life’s injustices. But I have always assumed that they would be united in their hatred of the propertied classes. Gegene has set the record straight on that score and taught me this: if there is one thing that poor people despise, it is other poor people.
- The Elegance Of The Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery
The psychological effect of poverty is what lasts. You can send in rice to heal them and for energy but beware of giving energy to desperate people. They’re going to use it…. The hunger is bad but then you’d need about nine million therapists, who’d never be equipped anyway.
- Frank McCourt on Writing About Poverty
- On Being Broke vs. Being Poor from Jezebel
- What ‘Girls’ and ‘Shameless’ Teach Us About Being Broke and Poor from The Nation
- In Rust Belt, a teenager’s climb from poverty, from The Washington Post
- You Can’t Afford To Lose Your Temper When You’re Poor, as well as a few other things, from Blue Milk
- Rachel Hills points out that ‘rich’ and ‘poor’ is a false dichotomy.
- Is there such a thing as ‘the privileged poor’? from Rachel Hills at Daily Life
- Why Do The Poor Become Parents? from The Dish
