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Tag: poverty, violence

Poverty advances discrimination and corruption because society classifies the rich and poor. Poverty augments anger, selfishness, hatred and envy among the people.Poverty entwined with desperation ends up in violence.” – Angelica Hopes, an excerpt from If I Could Tell You

poverty, violence

To cause pain was a disease. As a child I imagined tiny, almost invisible animals that arrived in the neighborhood at night, they came from the ponds, from the abandoned train cars beyond the embankment, from the stinking grasses called fetienti, from the frogs, the salamanders, the flies, the rocks, the dust, and entered the water and the food and the air, making our mothers, our grandmothers as angry as starving dogs.

poverty, violence

People who don’t have much get ugly about giving up the little they have left.

poverty, violence

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

poverty, violence