#poverty

Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient ↗

— Milton Berle

#poverty #truth #inspirational

If you want a future of shared prosperity, where the middle class is growing and poverty is declining, where the American Dream is alive and well, and where the United States remains the leading force for peace and prosperity in a highly competitive world, you should vote for Barack Obama. ↗

— William J. Clinton

#american #american dream #barack #barack obama #class

No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even lift a family out of poverty. ↗

— Jon Corzine

#does #earning #even #fact #family

There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty. ↗

— George Farquhar

#crime #like #nor #poverty #rags

And you spend your day going around from the house of the washerman to the house of the sweeper, asking about this one's son and that one's nephew, but spending no time with your own family. It is no secret that many people here think that you are a communist.' Rasheed reflected that this probably meant only that he loathed the poverty and injustice endemic to the village, and that he made no particular secret of it. ↗

— Vikram Seth

#communism #poverty #social-injustice #family

It wasn't poverty that drove me on. ↗

— Aleksandr Kuprin

#me #poverty

The food we were given was no more than eatable, but the patron was not mean about drink; he allowed us two litres of wine a day each, knowing that if a plongeur is not given two litres he will steal three. ↗

— George Orwell

#poverty #stealing #food

I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty. ↗

— Claude Levi-Strauss

#conviction #greater #i #intellectual #known

The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#poverty

I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty. ↗

— Loretta Lynn

#going #i #much #places #poverty