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Political speech3 quotes
Unfortunately, many Americans live on the outskirts of hope—some because of their poverty, and some because of their color, and all too many because of both. Our task is to help replace their despair with opportunity. This administration today, here and now, declares unconditional war on poverty in America. — Lyndon B. Johnson · 1964Poverty anywhere constitutes a danger to prosperity everywhere. — Franklin D. Roosevelt · 1944There never can be equality of rewards or possessions so long as the human plan contains varied talents and differing degrees of industry and thrift, but ours ought to be a country free from the great blotches of distressed poverty. — Warren G. Harding · 1921Sociology3 quotes
It would be hard to find a single instance of a direct assault by positive effort upon poverty, vice, and misery which has not either failed or, if it has not failed directly and entirely, has not entailed other evils greater than the one which it removed. — William Graham Sumner · 1881Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited. — Jane Addams · 1910The other America, the America of poverty, is hidden today in a way that it never was before. Its millions are socially invisible to the rest of us... The very development of American society is creating a new kind of blindness about poverty. The poor are increasingly slipping out of the very experience and consciousness of the nation. — Michael Harrington · 1962Autobiography and memoir2 quotes
It is a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself at last genuinely down and out. You have talked so often of going to the dogs—and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them, and you can stand it. It takes off a lot of anxiety. — George Orwell · 1933Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry. — George Orwell · 1933Political literature2 quotes
I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. — Benjamin Franklin · 1766There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else. — Oscar Wilde · 1891Religious literature2 quotes
If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me. — Jesus · 60Give me neither poverty nor riches. — Proverbs 30:8 · 686 BCDrama1 quote
Wherever there's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. — Tom Joad · 1940Drama (film)1 quote
Wherever there's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. — Tom Joad · 1940Drama (play)1 quote
The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty. — George Bernard Shaw · 1905Historical literature1 quote
The worst kind of shame is that caused by parsimony or poverty. — Livy · 9 BCPhilosophical literature1 quote
Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent. — Socrates · 375 BC