Wallace Stevens Quotes

Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough.

The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

The people who pay the biggest price are those who are struggling.

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

I had consumed a lot of American culture, but I was not quite prepared for the reality of American poverty.

In America, the 1 percent and the 10 percent are doing just fine, but the people who are bearing the brunt of this economy are the ones who suffer.

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

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

Poverty breeds a lot of things. When people are desperate and trying to survive, they do drastic things.

Whether you're rich or poor, life's still cold-blooded.

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

During the Great Depression, African Americans were faced with problems that were not unlike those experienced by the most disadvantaged groups in society. The Great Depression had a leveling effect, and all groups really experienced hard times: poor whites, poor blacks.

The poor will never cease out of the land.

Poverty abides no line drawn by color or culture.

Problems of persistent poverty cannot be addressed unless they are acknowledged.

If I wrote in Michael Harrington's time, roughly 50 years later when he published 'The Other America', I'd still be writing about poverty and also entrenched racial injustice.

In Manipur, mostly the top player's family background is very poor. I also come from a poor family, so we have to do more hard work to get money and a better life.

I was one of the poorest people in America.

Rarely they rise by virtue's aid who lie plunged in the depth of helpless poverty.

Poverty ennobles no one; it brutalizes common people and makes them hungry and old.

We must talk about poverty, because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.

I'm not sticking up for white kids - I'm going to have a barrage of hate mail - but it's true. If you're poor, you're really poor.

Poverty" Pitt exclaimed "is no disgrace but it is damned annoying." In the contemporary United States it is not annoying but it is a disgrace.

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

Economic growth without social progress lets the great majority of the people remain in poverty, while a privileged few reap the benefits of rising abundance.