“Poverty will make the best people bad, if it gets hard enough. Why there’s so much of it in the world, I’m… — George Gissing 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
70% of children born into poverty will never make it to the middle class. The uncomfortable truth is that there are now… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
“So in concrete terms, just how much dumber does poverty make you? “Our effects correspond to between 13 and 14 IQ points,”… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
If America does not use her vast resources of wealth to end poverty and make it possible for all of God's children… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The only way to end poverty, to make it history, is to build viable systems on the ground that deliver critical and… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
For, when you are approaching poverty, you make one discovery which outweighs some of the others. You discover boredom and mean complications… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Confronted with the unhappy facts of exclusion, we sometimes reassure ourselves by telling stories: the poor boys who made it, theblacks who… — Kenneth Keniston Copy Share Image