These people face real danger". Tendero is one of those who would rather be destitute in Britain than face persecution, torture and possibly worse, in his homeland of Zimbabwe.
One focus of Smith's book is the attitudes of slave owners; the seventeenth-century missionary Morgan Godwyn observed that they believed the Negroes, "though in their Figure they carry some resemblances of Manhood, yet are indeed no Men" but, rather, "Creatures destitute of Souls, to be ranked among Brute Beasts, and treated accordingly".
"This film will show Ethiopia from an Ethiopian perspective and show the land for what it is, which is mountainous and green and quite rich, rather than destitute".
Suu Kyi doesn't view her country as a defeated, destitute nation; rather, she thinks that it has suffered for several decades but will rise again.
Buying from farms that support a broad middle class rather than tycoons and destitute laborers is healthier.
Its clients are primarily people who have got into trouble because of changes in their circumstances, rather than because they are destitute.
Instead of being destitute, these women are now merely poor.
In warlord-ridden, destitute Somalia, used clothing is called, rather contemptuously, huudhaydh -- as in, "Who died?" A woman in Kenya who once sold used dresses told me that not long ago Kenyans assumed the clothing was removed from dead people and washed it carefully to avoid skin diseases.
While the establishment of the ICC is consistent with cosmopolitanism, a world order that is quick to punish through the ICC, but slow to help empower the destitute and marginalized, would constitute a perversion rather than a fulfillment cosmopolitan morality.
Rather than let each person run the risk of ending up destitute or sick, these programs pool the risk.
