American Quote by Reshma Saujani

The poor, no less than the rich, stay tuned in to the Dream Machine in bad times as well as good…By 1995, millions of…

— Charles Derber

Poverty is a trap: it should be eradicated. It's no real answer just lifting a few children from families stuck on low wages into…

— Dawn Foster

So here is the Great Society. It's the time - and it's going to be soon - when nobody in this country is poor.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

“By now, with all our modern technology, there should be no poverty left on earth.”

— Anonymous

I've seen a lot of poverty - coming up as a young child, lost hopes and dreams and people that never had a chance…

— Maxine Waters

One of the most durable successes of the war on poverty was to dramatically reduce the number of elderly poor in America. That's still…

— Sasha Abramsky

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

When the poor know that their children will survive, when they educate their daughters, when they access family planning, they have fewer children.

— Nicholas Kristof

Inevitably, people tell me that poor folks are lazy or unintelligent, that they are somehow deserving of their poverty. However, if you begin to…

— Bob Torres

“Most officially “poor” Americans today have things that middle-class Americans of an earlier time could only dream about—including color TV, videocassette recorders, microwave ovens,…

— Thomas Sowell

There's an awful lot of misunderstanding here about what being poor actually means. I don't think people understand that being poor means you have…

— Emma Thompson

“One of the reasons inequality gets so deep in this country is that everyone wants to be rich. That's the American ideal. Poor people…

— Jay-Z