Abandon Quote by Marc Morial

Poverty is rooted in injustice.

— Winnie Byanyima

Poverty affects people of all races.

— Bill Bennett

Poverty is restriction and as such, it is the greatest injustice you can perpetrate upon yourself.

— Stuart Wilde

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

Poverty is everyone's problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black or white;…

— Kathleen Blanco

Racism is not nearly as important as poverty. That's the same around the world. What look like ethnic problems are really economic issues. If…

— Marjane Satrapi

I will probably have a tendency to lean toward trying to resolve the issues that negatively impact black people, but the overall picture and…

— David Banner

Poverty is not only about income poverty, it is about the deprivation of economic and social rights, insecurity, discrimination, exclusion and powerlessness. That is…

— Irene Khan

“Fundamentally, poverty is a denial of choices and opportunities, a violation of human dignity. It means lack of basic capacity to participate effectively in…

— Dean Karlan

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

— H. Rap Brown

The poverty one still sees in America today is more shocking to me than anything I have seen in Ethiopia or Calcutta or Manila,…

— Pico Iyer

I believe that poverty is often the result of inappropriate behavior - out-of-wedlock births, dropping out of school, crime and drugs - which should…

— Joe Klein