America Quote by David K. Shipler

It is shameful that millions of Americans are suffering the economic injustice of working a full-time job and earning a wage that leaves them…

— Bill Pascrell

Not to be able to bear poverty is a shameful thing, but not to know how to chase it away by work is a…

— Pericles

But the economic meltdown should have undone, once and for all, the idea of poverty as a personal shortcoming or dysfunctional state of mind.…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

People who work full-time in America should not have to live in poverty - simple as that. Too many jobs don't pay enough to…

— Thomas Perez

“Those who were raised in poverty and have been successful to overcome the shame of it, understands the hardship of those who are left…

— Ellen J. Barrier

Those who think we are rich they forget that we have worked for it

— Matthias

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is our moral failure that we still tolerate poverty

— Ela Bhatt

Poverty treads close upon the heels of great and unexpected wealth.

— Antoine Rivarol

As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.

— Pericles

I have never forgotten how the deprivation of work erodes human beings, those not working and those related to them. And from that time…

— Herbert Schiller

It has always been incomprehensible for me: people are ashamed of the poverty but aren't ashamed of the wealth.

— Faina Ranevskaya