Appalachia Quote by Ijeoma Oluo

“Poverty is what you see in the eyes of a Black child living in the squattercamp.”

— Matsime Simon Mohapi

“Poor people don't want to stay poor. But there's a misconception that it's somehow "unfair" to poor people, or, worse, racist, to let them…

— Carl Safina

In the treatment of poverty nationally, one fact stands out: there are twice as many white poor as Negro poor in the United States.…

— Martin Luther

“The challenge is more difficult because low-income African Americans today confront not only segregation but also the income stagnation and blocked mobility faced by…

— Richard Rothstein

“The new black conservatives claim that transfer payments to the black needy engender a mentality of dependence which undercuts the value of self-reliance and…

— Cornel West

Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.

— H. Rap Brown

“The Truly Disadvantaged, the most important book written about poverty in the past three decades. It was Wilson who first observed, famously, that a…

— Kathryn Edin

“Poor is what people become, not what they are born to be.”

— Saji Ijiyemi

“Blacks must learn that true freedom from poverty is available only through hard work and perseverance, not through affirmative action programs, protesting, or blind…

— Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson

“Whiteness has privilege and power connected to it, no matter how poor you are.”

— Michael Eric Dyson

Poor is the new black. So on this film [The Land], there are poor black people, but there are also poor Latinos, and poor…

— Steven Caple Jr

“People are not poor because they’ve made bad choices, my mother liked to say, they make bad choices because they’re poor.”

— Zadie Smith