Adversity Quote by Jack Newfield

Bobby Kennedy is so concerned with poverty because he didn't have any as a kid.

— Ronald Reagan

“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

Poverty became something one could see and experience firsthand, no matter where one was on the economic ladder; it became something you could viscerally…

— Sasha Abramsky

“Millions of Americans instinctively associate “poverty” with “black.”

— David Cay Johnston

Only time [JF] Kennedy made any, took any action to even look like he identified with negroes was when he was forced to. Kennedy…

— Malcolm X

I will come up with a project that will wipe out poverty in the Philippines in two years. I want to remove the people…

— Imelda Marcos

Robert Kennedy was such an inspiring figure. His interest in politics seemed to come not from a desire for power, but from a need…

— Elisabeth Shue

One of the problems with a candidate like Bob Kennedy, and his brother before him, was that people assumed they didn't need contributions.

— Pierre Salinger

Poverty was a relationship, I thought, involving poor and rich people alike.

— Matthew Desmond

John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

“The famous US political family, the Kennedys, were known for their numerous children, yet were never condemned for contributing to overpopulation.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

For complicated historical and political reasons, we associate 'poor' in our public consciousness with 'black.' Terms such as 'welfare queen' and 'culture of poverty'…

— J. D. Vance