Follow Quote by Thomas Sowell

For most of history, almost everyone was poor. Power and wealth belonged to only a few.

— Marco Rubio

Poverty affects people of all races.

— Bill Bennett

Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance

— Daniel Deleon

Prosperity seldom chooses the side of the virtuous.

— Heloise

People who refuse to open their minds to new strategies seldom become rich.

— Robert Kiyosaki

Great nations are never impoverished by private, though they sometimes are by public prodigality and misconduct.

— Adam Smith

Poverty is a stubborn thing: you seldom escape it with one bound.

— Fay Weldon

The poor are the blacks of Europe.

— Nicolas Chamfort

Throughout history government has seldom hesitated from robbing its citizens in a crisis.

— James Cook

We remain a highly unequal society in which poverty and prosperity are still defined by race as well as gender.

— Cyril Ramaphosa

Rarely they rise by virtue's aid who lie plunged in the depth of helpless poverty.

— Juvenal

It is unfortunate that we should find ourselves at this time the only disorganized group. Others have had the advantage of organization for centuries,…

— Marcus Garvey