A calling is you feel - you look out and see the need - maybe it's the need for the poor, to help poor people. Maybe it's the need to get involved in the race problem, as Martin Luther King was - felt called.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I feel everyone is put here for a reason. Everyone has a calling. I always thought my real calling was to help other people.
Poverty is everyone's problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black or white; rich, middle-class or poor, we are ALL touched by poverty.
Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color. Every few years you will see some great change in the way that they approach this. We've had the war on poverty that never really got into waging a real war on poverty.
First we have to recognize that the cause of poverty is both structural and behavioral. And the first thing about the behavior part is that we need a moral revolution within the African American community. Look - no white racist makes you get pregnant when you are a black teenager.
Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.
Dependency arguments often come from elites - either aid agencies or governments - and say something about attitudes to poor people.
The burden of poverty isn't just that you don't always have the things you need, it's the feeling of being embarrassed every day of your life, and you'd do anything to lift that burden.
People who are much too sensitive to demand of cripples that they run races ask of the poor that they get up and act just like everyone else in the society.