#overt

It seems incontrovertible to me that there is a global warming effect and that it is going to be serious, probably not in the amount of, say, six degrees warming, but it's likely that we'll get two to three degrees warming and that will be serious enough. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#degrees #effect #enough #get #global

It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

#blunder #crime #despised #easy #enough

I made a decision that whether or not I was going to make under the national poverty level wasn't going to play a part in whether or not I was an actor. That's what I do. ↗

— Don Johnson

#decision #going #i #i do #level

As a result of the current universal benefit, the poverty rate for seniors in America is about 10%. Without the universal benefit, it would be over 50%. ↗

— Steve Israel

#america #benefit #current #over #poverty

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

People know about the Klan and the overt racism, but the killing of one's soul little by little, day after day, is a lot worse than someone coming in your house and lynching you. ↗

— Samuel L. Jackson

#after #coming #day #house #killing

It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#main #music #online #our #overt

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. ↗