#poorest

Governor Romney has said nothing about preschool. I think that giving the poorest kids in America wonderful preschool, and three years of it, starting when they are two-and-a-half, is absolutely crucial. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#absolutely #america #crucial #giving #governor

The first ten, twelve or fifteen years of life are excavated of inherent moral worth in order to accommodate a regimen of basic training for the adult years that many of the poorest children may not even live to know. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#adult #basic #children #even #fifteen

Originally created to serve the poorest and sickest among us, the Medicaid program has grown dramatically but still doesn't include the kind of flexibility that states need to provide better health care for the poor and disadvantaged. ↗

— Fred Upton

#among #better #care #created #disadvantaged

The poorest residents of the gulf coast were most affected by the devastating hurricanes, and the poorest Americans have shouldered a disproportionate share of the burden in Iraq. ↗

— Marty Meehan

#burden #coast #devastating #disproportionate #gulf

Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don't need to imagine it. It's called the United States of America. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#bracket #called #decade #imagine #into

You need massive recruitment to tell the poorest of the poor what is possible. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#need #poor #poorest #possible #recruitment

But the Western countries that link their partnership with the poorest countries with respect for democracy also have to consider that they have obligations towards these countries. ↗

— Omar Bongo

#consider #countries #democracy #link #obligations

Well, my view before was a Western view, and I certainly understand marriage equality and civil rights, equal rights for all, but having visited developing nations and some of the poorest nations in the world, I realize how deep it goes and how much work really needs to be done to create equality for all. ↗

— Jason Mraz

#certainly #civil #civil rights #create #deep

Growing up in a very rural and remote area in Colorado's San Luis Valley - one of the poorest counties in the United States - essentially created the framework of values from which I operate. I stand up for the little guy. I fight discrimination at all levels. I fight for an inclusive America. ↗

— Ken Salazar

#area #colorado #counties #created #discrimination

Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world's poorest people. ↗

— Bono

#also #home #million #people #poorest