Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.
Lyndon B. Johnson
This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.
When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name.
All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.
Samuel Johnson
Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.
William Samuel Johnson
People never knew we were poor, but out of that poverty came the most incredible inventions - board games, recipes... we never stopped inventing.
Lynn Johnston
Bonnie and Clyde grew up in absolute poverty. They didn't go to school or have any money; the only way they could figure out how to get ahead was... →
Jeremy Jordan
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
Juvenal
The burden of poverty isn't just that you don't always have the things you need, it's the feeling of being embarrassed every day of your... →
Jay-Z
It is development, not poverty, that causes upheaval and terrorism.
Robert D. Kaplan