Henry George Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

I agree that income disparity is the great issue of our time. It is even broader and more difficult than the civil rights issues of the 1960s. The '99 percent' is not just a slogan. The disparity in income has left the middle class with lowered, not rising, income, and the poor unable to reach the middle class.

Everyone's seen poverty - well, most have.

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

Poverty is an expensive luxury. We cannot afford it.

Complaint is poverty.

Poverty is what we call the extremes at the bottom.

I just hated poverty.

Hey, baby, nobody suffers like the poor.

In the indications of female poverty there can be no disguise. No woman dresses below herself from caprice.

There are two billion fellow human beings who live on less than $2 a day.

My mother saved our home with a minimum wage job. But in the 1960s, a minimum wage job would support a family of three above the poverty line. Not today. Not even close. I understood right then that people can work hard, they can play by the rules, and they can still take a hard smack.

We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.

My parents worked their tails off, but we weren't the poorest people in town. Some people I went to school with, you could tell they were dirt poor.