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The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity.

The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.

Far less wealthy industrialized countries have committed to end child poverty, while the United States is sliding backwards. We can do better. We must demand that our leaders do better.

While Haiti has recently celebrated more than 200 years of independence from French colonial rule, the citizens of the island remain vulnerable to poverty, poor health, and political chaos.

But, we have had the debate in our country now for a number of years as to whether or not free trade agreements are good for economic growth and economic opportunity in creating jobs and lifting people out of poverty.

A Harris poll I've seen says only 12 percent of the electorate names taxes as one of the most important issues facing the nation. Voters put tax cuts dead last, behind education, Social Security, health care, Medicare and poverty.

Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care.

There's no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

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

Without Social Security, poverty rates for African American seniors would more than double.

Money can't buy poverty.

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.

Poverty and the rule of race that is called apartheid drive the Transkeian migrant from security on the land to work in the cities, and then back again.

The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty - not marble floors and foundations.

State government has too often been used to look out for the insiders and not the citizens. This has insulated poverty from progress, and need from remedy.

Stand-up comedy and poverty. Those were my two main endeavors.

Social Security is one of the greatest achievements of the American government, protecting our elderly against poverty and assuring young people of a more secure future.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.

When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually.