#overt

Since Social Security was established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 to ensure economic security for American workers, poverty among American seniors has dramatically declined. ↗

— Steve Israel

#american workers #among #declined #dramatically #economic

This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#declares #here #now #poverty #this administration

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#escape #learning #must #offer #poverty

When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#had #i #know #name #poverty

Taxing poor families runs counter to decades of effort to help people lift themselves out of poverty through work. ↗

— Nicholas Johnson

#decades #effort #families #help #help people

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#abolish #different #forms #hands #his

My state has the highest child poverty rate in all of New England, above the national average. ↗

— Patrick J. Kennedy

#average #child #england #highest #national

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. ↗

— Robert Kennedy

#evil #i #i believe #i believe that #long

I would like to solemnly reaffirm, that poverty is not a fatality. ↗

— Mathieu Kerekou

#i #like #poverty #reaffirm #solemnly

My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace - it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world. So peace does not mean just putting an end to violence or to war, but to all other factors that threaten peace, such as discrimination, such as inequality, poverty. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#based #definition #destroy #discrimination #does