Frustrated Seniors             

This website was created  for Seniors everywhere who feel they are no longer listened too, and respected in society today!

http://www.helium.com/items/2316522-apahty-the-trouble-with-apathy-apathy-cures...Check this article out on apathy in modern society!

We are not ready yet to roll over, and die. We are: Women, Men, fighters and survivors that feel that the time is NOW to be heard!

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.
-- maggie kuhn, founder

The Gray Panthers

Franklin Roosevelt

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young. ~ Benjamin Franklin 

Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.
-- maggie Kuhn,

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
- Booker T. Washington

Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dream, you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

  Everyman dies but not everyman lives-from Brave Heart

“Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Knock at Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap."

Barbara Jordan

Elder poverty rates are twice as high among Blacks and Latinos compared to the U.S. population as a whole: 19.4 percent of Black seniors and 19.0 percent of Latino seniors have incomes below the federal poverty line, compared to 9.4 percent for the senior population overall.

Less than a third of employed Latinos and less than half of Black workers are covered by an employer sponsored retirement plan, a critical resource in ensuring adequate retirement income.  As a result, they are disproportionately reliant on the limited income provided by Social Security.

Among retirees age 60 and older, people of color are disproportionately likely to be low income: for 2007-2009, 31.6 percent of Blacks and 46.5 percent of Latinos were in the bottom 25 percent income group. The “other” race group, which includes Asian/Pacific Islander and Native American populations, is also more likely to be low-income (38 percent).

 

 

“The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.” ....Abigale Van Buren