"Poverty is not a character failing or a……" — Barbara Ehrenreich

Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty… - Barbara Ehrenreich

"Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money."

— Barbara Ehrenreich

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117 Quotes by Barbara Ehrenreich

Barbara Ehrenreich has 117 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be…
From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already…
To live in poverty is to live with constant uncertainty, to accept galling indignities, and to expect harassment by the…
Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city, crime is taken as…
If that's how it all started, then we might as well face the fact that what's left out there is…
We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.
The media have just buried the last yuppie, a pathetic creature who had not heard the news that the great…
Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and drilling the bees…
The feminist anti-pornography movement, no less than the feminist movement of a century ago, encourages the assumption that male and…
A free-enterprise economy depends only on markets, and according to the most advanced mathematical macroeconomic theory, markets depend only on…
So why do people keep on watching? The answer, by now, should be perfectly obvious: we love television because television…
If men were equally at risk from this condition - if they knew their bellies might swell as if they…

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The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good… — Hannah Arendt
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition… — Aristotle
One of my favorite things about 'Star Trek' wasn't just the overt banter but the humor in that show about… — J. J. Abrams
My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was… — Lance Armstrong
Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting. — Darren Aronofsky
You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. — Victoria Abril
I have always regarded Mr. Bean as a timeless, ageless character, and I would rather he be remembered as a… — Rowan Atkinson
When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things -… — Rowan Atkinson

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