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Clothes make the poor invisible. America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known. — Michael Harrington

America stands as a beacon of hope and the possibility of a better life - but it is also a nation where nearly 1 in 4 children live in poverty. — Chris Van Hollen

Davy Crockett and James Bowie got what was coming to them," Mom said. "for stealing this land from the Mexicans" - and — Anonymous

If poverty persists in America, it is not for lack of resources. — Matthew Desmond

Before Social Security existed, about half of America's senior citizens lived in poverty. — Bernie Sanders

Now, where are [Mexican illegal immigrants] fleeing from? Mostly from Central America, where they're fleeing from the results of our policies. — Noam Chomsky

In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization. — Oscar Wilde

Is everything forbidden us except to fold our arms? Poverty is not written in the stars; under development is not one of God's mysterious designs. — Eduardo Galeano

The greatest poverty in America today is time poverty. People have money, but they don't have time. — Brian Tracy

America has a unique type of poverty that looks like wealth. — Bryant McGill

We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before. — Herbert Hoover

[If] a man doesn't have a job or an income, he has neither life nor liberty nor the possibility for the pursuit of happiness. He merely exists. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Poverty in western Mexico is an Unconditional Sentence. — Warren Eyster

America must remain freedom's staunchest friend, for freedom is our best ally and it is the world's only hope to conquer poverty and preserve peace. — Ronald Reagan

No moral code or ethical principle, no piece of scripture or holy teaching, can be summoned to defend what we have allowed our country to become. — Matthew Desmond

America has a critical place to play in the end of extreme poverty. — Hugh Evans

I see an America where poverty is defeated by opportunity, not enabled by a government check. — Mitt Romney

Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about. — Barbara Ehrenreich

Free trade will go a long way toward alleviating poverty in Central America. Yet trade alone is not enough. — Oscar Arias

The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune. — Alexis De Tocqueville

A lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things. — Steve Wozniak

It was easier to deal with poverty and death in India that the lack of spirituality in America. — Mother Teresa

More people are killed by stray bullets every day in America than have been killed by Ebola here. More are dying because of poverty and hunger. — Robert Reich

And sometimes people don't realize that 90 percent of the persistent poverty counties are located in rural America. — Tom Vilsack

There is a deep sadness to American poverty, greater than the sadness of any other kind. It's because America has such an ideology of success. — Will Self

Well, we in America are about to break up with oil. Why not break up with poverty and discrimination too? — Van Jones

It's proper Netiquette to view in-App webpages in a mobile browser for better security. — David Chiles

You will miss her sometimes. Bear in mind she's trying to kill you. Bear in mind you have a life to live. — Marya Hornbacher

America. The enemy. The rival. The land of jeans and rock and roll, of crime and capitalism, of poverty and oppression. Of home and freedom. — Orson Scott Card

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land. — Herbert Hoover

I've done a lot of weird, otherworldly characters, and I think I'm at my best when I'm kind of in the woods running around screaming or depressed. — Bryce Dallas Howard

She's a good person, but she is a weak person, too. She can't take care of anyone else because she's too busy taking care of herself." I — Patricia Briggs

All the nations that make up the world are burdened down with riches or poverty, obesity or malnutrition, success or failure. — Billy Graham