#poverty

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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Firstly, economic globalisation has brought prosperity and development to many countries, but also financial crises to Asia, Latin America and Russia, and increasing poverty and marginalisation. ↗

— Anna Lindh

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Poverty must be reduced not only for reasons of moral and justice, but also of security. ↗

— Anna Lindh

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The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty. ↗

— Sophia Loren

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That first responsibility as a school board member - meals for latch-key children - was absolutely critical in my understanding of the extraordinary problems of poverty. ↗

— Richard Lugar

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Anticipate charity by preventing poverty. ↗

— Maimonides

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