#overt

The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were assured that we would never reach the very depths of poverty. And to be told, that we are now going to gamble it, on Wall Street, is nonsense! ↗

— Arthur Hertzberg

#country #depths #enactment #gamble #going

Thus the castle of each feudal chieftain became a school of chivalry, into which any noble youth, whose parents were from poverty unable to educate him to the art of war, was readily received. ↗

— Horatio Alger

#art #art of war #became #castle #chieftain

Over one in five American children is living in poverty, and the number is rising. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#american children #children #five #living #number

Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world. ↗

— Kofi Annan

#abject #billions #countries #developing #hope

Poverty is the schoolmaster of character. ↗

— Antiphanes

#poverty #schoolmaster

Progress and Poverty was the most closely knit, fascinating, and convincing specimen of argumentation that, I believe, ever sprang from the mind of man. ↗

— Scott Brooks

#closely #convincing #ever #fascinating #i

The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty. ↗

— H. Rap Brown

#eliminate #poverty #program

You see, the poverty program for the last five years have been buy-off programs. ↗

— H. Rap Brown

#five #last #poverty #program #programs

Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

#covert #more #overt #preparation

Stand-up comedy and poverty. Those were my two main endeavors. ↗