Walter Lippmann Quotes

This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.

In the poorest of the poor we see Jesus in distressed guise.

Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.

[President Johnson] had the political will to say that having one in five Americans living in the kind of abject conditions their fellow citizens associated with Third World countries and the novels of Dickens was as dangerous as any battlefield enemy.

I myself am from a very poor background; I experienced firsthand poverty in this country, and that is not unrelated to my desire, from the moment I became president, to make a priority of poverty reduction in this country.

A poor man is a man who has not got much money. This may seem a simple and unnecessary description, but in the face of a great mass of modern fact and fiction, it seems very necessary indeed; most of our realists and sociologists talk about a poor man as if he were an octopus or an alligator.

One of the things that struck me when I came to the U.S. was discovering American poverty.

The fact that the poor are alive is clear proof of their ability.

The issue I focus on the most is extreme poverty. I think it's kind of out of sight out of mind. I wish there would be more stories about that to connect people to what's happening. To personalize it, to make it real to people, to inspire them to action.

The United States of America is the richest country in the world; yet we're the worst at taking care of poor people.

We're not stupid! We're just poor! And we have a right to insist on this distinction

For the poor, the economic is spiritual.

The doctrine of thrift for the poor is dumb and cruel, like advising them to try and lift themselves by their bootstraps.

Poverty is the fundamental cause of most of the physical, moral and economic ills of humanity.

Economy, the poor man's mint.

Get to know the poor in your country. Love them. Serve them.

Today it is fashionable to talk about the poor. Unfortunately, it is not fashionable to talk with them.

Poverty devastates families, communities and nations. It causes instability and political unrest and fuels conflict.

Poverty is never dishonourable in itself, but only when it is a mark of sloth, intemperance, extravagance, or thoughtlessness. When, on the other hand, it is the handmaid of a sober, industrious, righteous, and brave man, who devotes all his powers to the service of the people, it is the sign of a lofty spirit that harbours no mean thoughts

Everything that poverty touches becomes frightful.

Some people think that poor people are lazy. Actually, it takes a lot of work to survive when you are dirt-poor.

Poverty is one of them kind of misfortunes that we all of us dread but none of us pity.

He is now rising from affluence to poverty.

The biggest and most deadly 'tax' rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefits - food stamps, housing subsidies and the like - if their income goes up.