The most famous of his poems is the "Hinkyū mondō" ("Dialogue on Poverty"), which treats the sufferings of poverty in the form of an exchange between a poor man and a destitute man.
Many folks in my city have been exploited, traumatized, and abused, suffering generations of poverty, unemployment, hopelessness, and worst of all, a perception of purposelessness.
Stardom and creative expression fuel aspiring performers' willingness to starve, working catering jobs (as so gloriously chronicled by the late, great Starz comedy, "Party Down) and take on other assorted tasks, but the potential prosperity of tomorrow certainly plays into the voluntary suffering of the poverty of today.
Who can estimate how much of suffering and disease, of poverty and ignorance, or of the threat posed by natural disasters would by now have been conquered were not so much of our energy and resources diverted either to the pursuit of wrongful goals, or to guarding ourselves against those who do pursue them, and mending as well as we can the harm they cause?
Then, as now, students suffering the effects of poverty were far more likely to attend a segregated school that was run-down and ill-prepared to deal with the massive and crippling effects of poverty.
But designing programs, and making them work, takes time, and during that time the kids of today, through no fault of their own, are suffering the effects of poverty.
Yes, it's a wonderful world but also full of suffering, poverty, and plenty of people who need our help.
The "eyes" on the Ile Saint Louis are the product of a two-year world tour called "Women are Heroes", intended to mark the courage and suffering of women enduring poverty and violence in Brazil, India, Cambodia, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Kenya and Liberia.
Appalling abysses of poverty, suffering and abuse for those least able to fend for themselves.
This was not microcredit's intended poverty reduction so much as the intensification of poverty, suffering and deprivation among the very poorest communities forced into informal sector work.
