Approach Quote by Maxine Waters

Poor people of all colors are getting poorer and our communities are getting more toxic. There is a misconception that to grow our economy…

— Majora Carter

Even today we don't pay serious attention to the issue of poverty, because the powerful remain relatively untouched by it. Most people distance themselves…

— Muhammad Yunus

Poverty should not just be made an issue - there is need to actually work on it.

— Rajnath Singh

Poverty is a horrible, bedeviling force that invades and infects every aspect of our lives and communities - our homes, our pantries, our schools,…

— Wes Moore

Poverty has become a big problem.

— Alberto Fernandez

I think we've made tremendous progress on racism. We've even made progress on war. We've made almost no progress on poverty.

— Andrew Young

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

Poverty is not inevitable. It is a human ill that we can fight if we decide to do so together.

— Marc Forne Molne

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

Poverty continues to exist. Its appearance seems to be relentless in evidencing itself not only to all the things we experience here in America,…

— Harry Belafonte

We fought a war on poverty, and poverty won

— Ronald Reagan