Attention Quote by Sasha Abramsky

“If we’re all led to believe that poverty is just a matter of laziness or stupidity or whatever other justifications we come up with,…

— Bob Torres

If we're all led to believe that poverty is just a matter of laziness or stupidity or whatever other justifications we can come up…

— Bob Torres

What you see around the world is that poverty is not destiny. In other countries, much more systemically, student after student, school after school,…

— Arne Duncan

The notion about education has changed and that now it’s sort of much more aligned with, “Well, schools can’t combat poverty. We can’t possibly…

— Michelle Rhee

Today there are a huge number of think tanks working on poverty-related issues; there are books written on the topic; and university centers being…

— Sasha Abramsky

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse…

— Washington Irving

It is not poverty so much as pretence that harasses a ruined man--the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse--the keeping up…

— Anna Brownell Jameson

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

Kids in high poverty are much more expensive to educate and need much more support... When they're packed into a classroom of 40 people,…

— Gretchen Whitmer

“If poverty is a disease that infects an entire community in the form of unemployment and violence, failing schools and broken homes, then we…

— Barack Obama

For those who have lived on the edge of poverty all their lives, the semblance of poverty affected by the affluent is both incomprehensible…

— Lillian B. Rubin

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