Joe Morton Quotes

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

It's difficult to write about poverty in a way that doesn't feel cliched.

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.

You learn pretty fast that there is no magic solution to poverty.

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

Poverty is the parent of revolution.

How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics in the twentieth century.

Why should there be such abject poverty?

Poverty fills armies, mans navies.

Poverty is an artificial imposition on a human being.

You don't have to be impoverished to understand poverty.

We’ve convinced ourselves that poverty is a tolerable thing. The basic problem is the sense of resignation about poverty in our society.

To one American family out of four, the idea of capitalism as a benign system of comfort, dignity, and personal advance is only a myth, or worse, a bitter mockery.

You can't wish away poverty overnight.

I left college with a deep sense that I needed to understand poverty more.

Poverty leads to protests.

As I have traveled the state, I have seen firsthand that there are Arizonans who are hurting.

We know that Brexit would make our poorest communities poorer still. That it would make the powerless even less able to effect change.

In a country like Mexico, you can't forget about poverty - about how half of the population lives in poverty, and how half of that half live in extreme poverty.

Poverty destroys Americans every day by means of confrontations with the law, disease, pollution, violence and despair.

Poverty is not a lack of character. Poverty is a lack of cash.

Everyone's seen poverty - well, most have.

The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.

A poore mans Cow dies a rich mans child.

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