Poverty Discussion Quotes

Exploitation. Now, there's a word that has been scrubbed out of the poverty debate.

I think that before people were speaking much about the poor, but now more and more people are speaking to the poor. That is the great difference.

Finally I got to the point where I said, I'd like to start a project where we can actually talk about race and poverty, not through the lens of a particular case, but much more broadly.

It is so much easier to talk of poverty than to think of the poor, to argue the rights of capital than to see its results. Pretty soon we come to think of the theories and abstract ideas as things in themselves.

Today it is fashionable to talk about the poor. Unfortunately, it is not fashionable to talk with them.

So long as I confine my activities to social service and the blind, they compliment me extravagantly, calling me 'arch priestess of the sightless,' 'wonder woman,' and a 'modern miracle.' But when it comes to a discussion of poverty, and I maintain that it is the result of wrong economics-that the industrial system under which we live is at the root of much of the physical deafness and blindness in the world-that is a different matter!

It is so much easier to talk of poverty than to think of the poor.

America doesn't like to hear about things like welfare. 'Don't talk about that. We don't like what it did to people!' Yeah, but it happened.

If we have an honest discussion on whether the war on poverty should be fought with welfare or with economic growth in the private sector, Democrats will lose black votes.

There is nothing more sickening than talking about poverty over a fancy dinner.