Rebecca Solnit Quotes

If you work, you should not be poor.

We cannot continue to have the upper class wealty getting richer and richer, the middle class shrinking and 43 million living in poverty.

When you talk about war on poverty it doesn't mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today.

The working class of England take their deracination completely for granted. Disenchantment is the happy code that informs every byway of the underclass: service jobs, celebrity dreams, Lotto wins, leisured poverty on pre-crunch credit cards, it's all there, part of the story of an English people whose grandparents never had it so good.

Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.

Millions of people are falling out of the middle class into the ranks of the poor.

In middle-income countries, inequality becomes a problem because you can see there is a layer of people who are doing well, while the poor are still stuck there. We have 300 million poor in India.

It is unacceptable that someone can work full time - and work hard - and not be able to lift themselves out of poverty.

Inflation is taking up the poverty line, and poverty is not just economic but defined by way of health and education.

The working poor is a growing population in this country.

What is this War on Poverty? Money is going to people in Chicago who are against me.

What we're seeing is that even in high poverty neighborhoods, the average cost of renting is quickly approaching the total income of welfare recipients and low wage workers.

America's vast population of working poor can only get so poor before even Walmart is out of reach.

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.

Politicians seem desperate to appeal to their respective versions of the so called 'middle class,' unable to empathise with the precariat and eager to dream up fresh and tougher sanctions against society's wounded.

There's a lot of journalism about poverty, but sometimes it just helps to see that there's a real person who becomes a real mom, who is working with unsustainable wages that could eventually destroy her.

It is absolute poverty that you could end, but I think relative poverty is a whole other issue.

The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society.

The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence.

Poverty is a soft pedal upon the branches of human activity, not excepting the spiritual.

The worst thing about poverty is not the actual living of it, but the shame of it.

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

Luxury may possibly contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor.

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.