Her tre dage f\u00f8r den store fattigdomskonference i Svendborg vil Danmarksbloggen ile med 10 citater fra verdenskendte mennesker om netop fattigdommen,\u00a0dens betydning og \u00f8del\u00e6ggende konsekvens.<\/p>\n
10 citater der viser, at fattigdom ikke er en naturlov, men noget menneskeskabt \u00a0\u2013 der derfor ogs\u00e5 kan afskaffes, hvis vi er mange nok, der vil dele med de andre.<\/p>\n
10 citater, der viser, at fattigdom er s\u00e5 meget mere end manglen p\u00e5 penge \u2013 at det er en f\u00f8lelse af at v\u00e6re udenfor \u2013 at det er de sm\u00e5 daglige ydmygelser og savn, fordi man ikke kan v\u00e6re med og ikke har de ting, som alle andre har.<\/p>\n
Og nej, vi taler ikke om store biler og l\u00e6kre sommerhuse, men muligheden for at kunne sende sine b\u00f8rn i sv\u00f8mmehallen eller k\u00f8be en lampe, n\u00e5r den gamle g\u00e5r i stykker.<\/p>\n
Men nu vil Danmarksbloggen overlade ordet til de 10 verdenskendte personer:<\/p>\n
Confucius:<\/strong> In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of<\/em>.<\/p>\n Mahatma Ghandi:<\/strong> Poverty is the worst form of violence.<\/em><\/p>\n Pr\u00e6sident John F. Kennedy:<\/strong> The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the pover to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.<\/em><\/p>\n Forfatter J.K. Rowling:<\/strong> Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.<\/em><\/p>\n Rapper Jay-Z:<\/strong> The burden of poverty isn\u00b4t just that you don\u00b4t always have the things you need, it\u00b4s the feeling of being embarrassed every day of your life, and you\u00b4d do anything to lift that burden<\/em>.<\/p>\n Forfatter James A. Baldwin:<\/strong> Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.<\/em><\/p>\n Filminstrukt\u00f8r Woody Allen:<\/strong> Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.<\/em><\/p>\n Forfatter Isabel Allende:<\/strong> In times of conflict, war, poverty or religious fundamentalism, women and children are the first and most numerous victims. Women need all their courage today.<\/em><\/p>\n Modeskaber og designer Vivienne Westwood:<\/strong> The main message of Climate Revolution is that climate change is caused by the rotten financial system we\u00b4ve got, designed to create poverty and rip off any profits for a small amount of rich people. Meanwhile, it destroys the earth.<\/em><\/p>\n \u00d8konom Muhammad Yunus:<\/strong> Poverty is the absence of human rights. The frustration, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot substain peace in any society.<\/em><\/p>\n S\u00e5 er det sagt: Fattigdom er frav\u00e6ret af menneskerettigheder \u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n D\u00e9n lader vi lige st\u00e5 et \u00f8jeblik \u2026 vel m\u00f8dt p\u00e5 s\u00f8ndag i Svendborg.<\/p>\n Skrevet af: Dorte J. Thorsen, indehaver af og redakt\u00f8r p\u00e5 Danmarksbloggen.dk<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Her tre dage f\u00f8r den store fattigdomskonference i Svendborg vil Danmarksbloggen ile med 10 citater fra verdenskendte mennesker om netop fattigdommen,\u00a0dens betydning og \u00f8del\u00e6ggende konsekvens. 10 citater der viser, at fattigdom ikke er en naturlov, men noget menneskeskabt \u00a0\u2013 der … L\u00e6s resten