Some years ago, the federal government declared war on poverty, and poverty won. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty — Andrew Cuomo Copy Share Image
Instead of war on poverty, they got a war on drugs so the police can bother me. — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
For too long, we've attached some mythic notion to government solutions, and yet, 40 years after we began the War on Poverty,… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Wars are bred by poverty and oppression. Continued peace is possible only in a relatively free and prosperous world. — George C. Marshall Copy Share Image
The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice. — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
There's a lot of money in wars, except in the war on poverty. Can't make any bread helping the poor. — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
part of the problem with a war on poverty today is that many Americans have decided that being poor is a character… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, Democrats don't want to wage a war on poverty or improve program integrity; they prefer talking points. — Mark Meadows Copy Share Image
We have to realize that this country in its private sector has been fighting the most successful war on poverty the world… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Middle-class-led reform movements, from the Progressive Era to the War on Poverty, have been marred by an elitist distance from the would-be… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“When Clay was little, newscasters boasted that the War on Poverty was being waged in those very mountains, but if the government… — Silas House Copy Share Image
Peace, to have meaning for many who have only known suffering in both peace and war, must be translated into bread or… — Ralph Bunche Copy Share Image
When you talk about war on poverty it doesn't mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
I believe the war on poverty is a more American idea than the war on the war on poverty. I believe that… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
These economic, social, cultural and educational causes of opportunity inequality are complex. And they will not be solved by continuing with the… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Peace is something more than the absence of war, although some nations would be thankful for that alone today. A durable and… — Willy Brandt Copy Share Image
Since the 1960s, when America finally became fully accountable for its past, deference toward all groups with any claim to past or… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
Instead of war on poverty, they got a war on drugs so the police can bother me. And I ain't never did… — Tupac Copy Share Image
I recognize that individuals and organizations with tremendous financial clout and open access to the political system in the post-Citizens United era,… — Sasha Abramsky Copy Share Image
Between 1965 (the beginning of LBJ's "Great Society") and 1994, welfare spending has cost the taxpayers $5.4 trillion in constant 1993 dollars.… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The origins of these [schooling] federal policies were tied to President Johnson's war on poverty. Supplemental funds were sent to school districts… — Pedro Noguera Copy Share Image
[The right] may never bring prayer back to schools, but it has rescued all manner of rightwing economic nostrums from history's dustbins.… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
“In 1963 activists demanding racial justice forced President Kennedy to come out for civil rights legislation. Within a year and a half… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
This is not about charity, it's about justice... The war against terror is bound up in the war against poverty - I… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
“The line in the sand that Carter drew along Iran’s Zagros Mountains now stretches from Central Asia through the Middle East and… — Andrew J. Bacevich Copy Share Image
Peace is no mere matter of men fighting or not fighting. Peace, to have meaning for many who have known only suffering… — Ralph Bunche Copy Share Image
“It is important to note that the Great Reversal preceded the rise of the welfare state in America. Lyndon Johnson’s War on… — Steve Corbett Copy Share Image
“These are lines from my asteroid-impact novel, Regolith: Just because there are no laws against stupidity doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be punished.… — Brent Reilly Copy Share Image
“When understanding fails, there is always more force in reserve. As the "experiments in material and human resources control" collapse and "revolutionary… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“It is of the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of legislative authority," the Federalist tell us. And… — Gene Healy Copy Share Image
“All of this goes back to Bill Clinton. It’s not a coincidence that radical welfare reform took place on the same watch… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
“The Truly Disadvantaged, the most important book written about poverty in the past three decades. It was Wilson who first observed, famously,… — Kathryn Edin Copy Share Image
“Since I had the inclinatation and the training, helping people came naturally. I wasn't thinking in terms of organizing members, but just… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these… — Plato Copy Share Image
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