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Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

We are tackling the inefficiency and corruption that has long plagued the New Orleans Housing Authority.

Poverty is an open-mouthed, relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society.

Poverty does not cause violence and terrorism. Lack of education does not cause terrorism.

To blame the existence of al Qaeda on poverty like Egypt's is a slur on the poor.

Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts.

The trouble with General Hooker is that he has his headquarters where his hindquarters ought to be.

We're creating these massive urban areas in the Third World. It's like you take the entire population of California and put it in one city. Then you remove basic sanitation and medical services, and you have a ticking biological time bomb.

There is a lot of talent in our slums.

Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and makes some virtues impracticable and others extremely difficult.

Poverty is the mother of crime.

To bring a child into the world that you cannot feed, clothe, house, and educate is the moral equivalent, in my opinion, of a drive-by shooting.

My parents were dealing with evictions and repossessions and electricity getting shut off, and I just realized that I had to get it together.

No one ever has the resources they need.

There's a real sense of desperation when you grow up in poverty.

My mother's illness fitted into this protest against the treatment of the sick who could not pay, the inefficiency of commercialism, the waste, the extravagance, and the poverty.

What began to weigh heavily upon me was that at the same time I was struggling to get my scholars and their families to believe in themselves, I was part of an educational system that despite its best intentions, only reinforced their failures.

I regret that on my arrival in Mesopotamia I was too much occupied with military matters, and too ill-informed regarding the political problem….[We had] a scratch and somewhat incongruous team of administrators with the majority possessing little exact knowledge of the people they were called upon to monitor

The natives [Eskimos] were sick in almost every tent … and were in a very deplorable condition. …. The pity of it was that nothing was being done for their relief…. If nothing is done soon, the Eskimos will continue to become stupefied and utterly helpless and lie down to die.

Heavy rents which are become so great a burden to us that we are not scarcely able to bear. Between landlord and rectors, the very marrow is screwed out of our bones ….They have reduced us to such a deplorable state by such grievous oppressions that the poor is turned black in the face … and they are rendered incapable to support their starving families … that they have not even food, nor raiment to secure them from the extremes of weather.

What's popular in places considered ghettos - whether that's the inner city or Appalachia - is having a decent quality of life.

Lack of education, old age, bad health or discrimination - these are causes of poverty, and the way to attack it is to go to the root.

I did not throw out my education lightly, but what I was being taught was of no use in explaining what I saw around me. It was the Great Depression.

Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched.

We wonder if we will be the first generation in American history to leave our children with fewer opportunities and a less prosperous nation than the one we inherited.