#poverty

First we have to recognize that the cause of poverty is both structural and behavioral. And the first thing about the behavior part is that we need a moral revolution within the African American community. Look - no white racist makes you get pregnant when you are a black teenager. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

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Since the day Martin Luther King was killed, the black middle classes have almost quadrupled, but the percentage of black children living on or below the poverty line is almost the same. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

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The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and underclass shows that ending discrimination, by itself, would not eradicate black poverty and dysfunction. We also need intervention to promulgate a middle-class ethic of success among the poor, while expanding opportunities for economic betterment. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

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The Right insists that anyone can escape poverty by working hard but that is simply not the case. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

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I've never experienced chronic poverty, but I know what it's like to live on £3 a week. ↗

— Annie Lennox

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There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty. ↗

— Joe E. Lewis

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Poverty is not the root cause of crime. ↗

— Rush Limbaugh

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Great numbers of Asian Americans do not fit the model minority or 'tiger family' stereotypes, living instead in multigenerational poverty far from the mainstream. ↗

— Eric Liu

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There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty. ↗

— Titus Livius

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There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who have not been able to conquer poverty. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

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