#pov

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

We don't need flowery words about inequality to tell us that, and we don't need a party that has led while poverty and hunger rose to record levels to give us lectures about suffering. ↗

— Artur Davis

#flowery #give #hunger #inequality #lectures

We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age. ↗

— Viola Davis

#acting #age #environment #escaping #grew

He is now rising from affluence to poverty. ↗

— Mark Twain

#now #poverty #rising

The truth is, however rich people get, they hate paying tax. Some live abroad for a year, or years at a time just to avoid it. Bizarre really - desperate economic migrants are driven to leave their homeland because of poverty; tax exiles are driven overseas by their wealth. ↗

— Clint Black

#avoid #because #bizarre #desperate #driven

Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life. ↗

— Jimmy Dean

#factor #greatest #life #motivating #my life

I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up. ↗

— Kirk Douglas

#came #go #i #i came #nowhere

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#class #conspiracy #degrade #denied #enforced

Money is only a vehicle that provides you with options, and I say there's only one thing that money can't buy - poverty. ↗

— Jerry Doyle

#i #money #one thing #only #options

Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every education person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education is a fundamental solution to poverty. ↗

— Kathleen Blanco

#almost #educated #education #every #fundamental