Kathleen Blanco Quotes

Poverty doesn't imply necessarily violence.

Poverty is slavery.

Everyone's seen poverty - well, most have.

There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.

We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.

Poverty affects people of all races.

Corporate America cannot afford to remain silent or passive about the downward spiral we are undergoing. It cannot turn a blind eye to how difficult the experience of life is for so many of their customers.

The Negroes are facing the alternative of rising in the sphere of production to supply their proportion of the manufacturers and merchants or of going down to the graves of paupers.

Speak not of liberty — poverty is slavery.

Poverty is ever an inbred growth

Austerity is a disaster for everyone but the rich…. It’s crap, but it’s dangerous crap..

Poverty leads to protests.

Complaint is poverty.

I think that there always have been and always will be at least two Americas - the poor America, the second America, tends to be in the shadows. Sometimes it's an America of people in a ghetto of color, sometimes it's an economic ghetto, but definitely there is a parallel America which people in the dominant America prefer to ignore if they can.

Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society.

I am open-eyed about what poverty does to people.

We continue to blame the poor for their own condition. They are lazy. We do not want to know that the poorest of the poor are toddlers under three years of age.

Every day I've got to hear about unemployment and people starving.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Poverty and lack of education are ruining our planet.

Poverty existed before January 20, 2008, OK? Before President Obama took office.

White America is tortured by black America's failure to thrive, and all that guilt and anxiety has only gotten worse as a substantial quota of white America loses its own footing in the middle class and plunges into the rough country of joblessness, hopelessness, and government dependency.

The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.

Poverty is the mother of crime.

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.