Agnes Gund Quotes
I have always had an extreme sensitivity to inequality.
Pogrebin, Robin. "Agnes Gund Sells a Lichtenstein to Start Criminal Justice Fund." The New York Times, 11 June 2017.
60 years later George Orwell would use the last line in his famous Animal Farm --- See {625338} .
1st Earl of Beaconsfield
He was writing about America and many of the industrial democracies who at the time, as a result of globalziation, technology, government action and inaction, and other factors, had gone through a 30 year period of increasing disparities.
AI Explanation: This is a famous philosophical observation attributed to the early Christian author Lactantius. It suggests that true poverty isn't about a lack of material wealth, but rather being denied fairness, equality, or your rightful claims.
Agnes Gund (born 1938) is an American philanthropist and arts patron, collector of modern and contemporary art, and arts education and social justice advocate. She is President Emerita and Life Trustee of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and Chairman of its International Council. She is also Chair Emerita and board member of MoMA PS1. In 1977, in response to New York City's fiscal crisis that led to budget cuts that virtually eliminated arts education in public schools, Gund founded Studio in a School, a non-profit organization that engages professional artists as art instructors in public schools and community-based organizations to lead classes in drawing, printmaking, painting, collage, sculpture, and digital media, and to work with classroom teachers, administrators, and families to incorporate visual art into their school communities.
