QUOTES from the Sandbox ~ Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2019

Hi Everyone!  Tuesday and cannot seem to push aside the hurt and suffering
I see and feel around me.  People are hurting and in which way can I be
most helpful ~ ~                                                                               ~Jane
                                                              ~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
                                                                                           ~Martin Luther King, Jr.

"An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment
of all republics."                                                                              ~Plutarch

"Poverty is the worst form of violence."                            ~Mahatma Gandhi

"Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit."
                                                                                                      ~Eli Khamarov
"Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime."
                                                                                        ~Aristotle

"There are people in the world so hungry that God cannot appear to them
except in the form of bread."                                          ~Mahatma Gandhi

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance
of those who have much - it is whether we provide enough for those who
have too little."                                                               ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

"There is no Them.  There are only facets of Us."                   ~John Green

"In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of.
  In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of."
                                                                                                         ~Confucius

"If you're in trouble or hurt or need,  go to the poor people. They're the
only ones that will help  -  the only ones."                                 ~John Steinbeck
                                                         ~~~~~~~~~~~~~