From J.K. Rowling's June 2008 commencement speech at Harvard:
Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticized only by fools.
http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2008/06.05/
99-rowlingspeech.html
Or, in the words of Chaim Topol, "You made many, many poor people. I realize, of course, it's no shame to be poor, but it's no great honor, either."
Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticized only by fools.
http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2008/06.05/
99-rowlingspeech.html
Or, in the words of Chaim Topol, "You made many, many poor people. I realize, of course, it's no shame to be poor, but it's no great honor, either."
1 comment:
I have to say that I really identify with this post. I was afraid most of the economic stuff you talked about would go over my head.
Keep writing the good word.
~your friendly neighborhood Peets barista
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