America Quote by Matthew Desmond

We live in a country with a vast majority of people below the poverty line. Our natural resources are limited and getting scarcer.

— Amala Akkineni

There is nothing new about poverty. What is new, however, is that we have the resources to get rid of it.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The poverty of our imagination is no measure of say the world's resources. Our posterity will no doubt get fuel in ways that we…

— George Eliot

“If we are going to spend the bulk of our public dollars on the affluent — at least when it comes to housing —…

— Matthew Desmond

Poverty is an expensive luxury. We cannot afford it.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Poverty is abandonment. We have abandoned the poor.

— Tony Meloto

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth,…

— Alan Watts

The existence of poverty in the US should not be accepted as a necessary evil or insoluble problem, but should be considered a crisis…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Poverty is not just a lack of money; it is not having the capability to realize one's full potential as a human being

— Amartya Sen

Poor countries are poor because they are wasting their resources,

— Iqbal Quadir

Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.

— Jane Austen

Poverty is a result of lack of opportunity. Lack of opportunity is about being without power, without being in a position to make choices.

— Winnie Byanyima