#impoverished

What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of black people who are more impoverished than ever before. ↗

— Angela Davis

#between #black #class #connection #different

Conservatives may believe that impoverished borrowers destroyed Wall Street. But we liberals will not fool ourselves that stupid bankers sank conservatism for good. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#believe #borrowers #conservatism #conservatives #destroyed

If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#character #handout #impoverished #itself #permanent

Charging commercial institutions with failure to educate public taste is an indulgence from which intellectuals will only be deterred when they grasp that a non-existant contract can be neither breached nor enforced. If commerce is to be indicted for anything, it can only be for commercialism, and whether that is a crime or not is a political question. ↗

— Colin Watson

#impoverished-thought #education

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished. ↗

— Roland Barthes

#confront #excessive #hysteria #impoverished #language

We cannot ignore the disparity in resources that continue to plague many of our school systems, especially those serving predominantly inner-city minority and impoverished children. ↗

— Diane Watson

#children #continue #disparity #especially #ignore

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present. ↗

— Alan Watts

#go #impoverished #live #present #reason

When we see people that are impoverished and people who are dealt an unfair hand, then if we have the power to help them, we should try to do that. ↗

— John Legend

#hand #help #impoverished #people #power

However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#backgrounds #been #both #came #college

The effectiveness of advertising depends on the amount and kind of product information available to consumers... advertising will be more successful the more impoverished the consumer's information environment. ↗

— Michael Schudson

#amount #available #consumer #consumers #depends