“In the treatment of poverty nationally, one fact stands out: there are twice as many white poor as Negro poor in the United States. Therefore I will not dwell on the experiences of poverty that derive from racial discrimination, but will discuss the poverty that affects white and Negro alike.” StatesFactsWhitePoorUnitedPovertyUnited StatesDiscriminationTreatmentStanding OutRacial Discrimination Author:Martin Luther
“Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.” PovertyGroupsPositionRelationDiscriminationOppressionDeprived Book:Twentieth century faith: hope and survival Source: Twentieth century faith: hope and survival
“Certainly, the poverty, the discrimination, the episodic unemployment could not but strike an inquiring youngster: why did these exist, and what could we do about them.” PovertyStrikesDiscriminationUnemploymentYoungstersInquiring Author:Joseph Stiglitz
“Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty.” MeanPoorPovertyPrejudiceDiscriminationLiberalismEmancipationInadequacy Author:Hubert H. Humphrey
“Whether we want to own up to it or not, the welfare state has done what Jim Crow, gross discrimination and poverty could not have done. It has contributed to the breakdown of the black family structure and has helped establish a set of values alien to traditional values of high moral standards, hard work and achievement.” WantHardStatesDoneValuesBlackMoralPovertyHard WorkAchievementStandardsStructureDiscriminationTraditionalAliensWelfareGrossCrowBreakdownWelfare StateJim CrowTraditional ValuesBlack Family Author:Walter E. Williams
“Those who automatically say that the social pathology of the ghetto is due to poverty discrimination and the like cannot explain why such pathology was far less prevalent in the 1950s, when poverty and discrimination were worse. But there were not nearly as many grievance mongers and race hustlers then.” SocialRacePovertyDuesDiscriminationGhettoGrievancePathology Author:Thomas Sowell
“The white poor also suffer deprivation and the humiliation of poverty if not of color. They are chained by the weight of discrimination though its badge of degradation does not mark them. It corrupts their lives, frustrates their opportunities and withers their education. In one sense it is more evil for them because it has confused so many by prejudice that they have supported their own oppressors.” IfsDoeSufferingEvilOpportunityWhitePoorPovertyColorWeightPrejudiceMarkDiscriminationConfusedHumiliationDegradationOppressorsDeprivationBadgesChained Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Communism will never be defeated by atomic bombs. Our greatest defense against Communism is to take offensive action on behalf of justice and righteousness. We must seek to remove conditions of poverty, injustice, and racial discrimination.” ActionJusticePovertyConditionsInjusticeDefenseDiscriminationCommunismBombsRemoveRighteousnessDefeatedOffensiveBehalfAtomic BombRacial Discrimination Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“I actually believe that some residue of discrimination would lessen, because it's my view that there is a certain percentage of the white population that stereotypes and makes assumptions about African Americans because they don't inject the history of slavery and Jim Crow into current incarceration rates, or crime rates, or poverty rates, or what have you.” BelieveCertainWhiteViewsPovertyCrimeSlaveryRatePopulationCurrentsDiscriminationAfrican AmericanAssumptionStereotypePercentagesCrowIncarcerationJim CrowCrime Rates Author:Barack Obama
“According to UNESCO: there are over 154 million children in the world deprived of education due to poverty, slavery, racism, religious extremism, gender discrimination, and geographical isolation. The cost to educate a child in the third world is about $ 1 per month per child. To achieve global literacy, the investment would be $ 8 billion per year for 15 years.” WorldChildrenReligiousPovertyAchieveRacismSlaveryInvestmentGenderDiscriminationIsolationEducateLiteracyExtremismReligious Extremism Author:Greg Mortenson
“My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace - it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world. So peace does not mean just putting an end to violence or to war, but to all other factors that threaten peace, such as discrimination, such as inequality, poverty.” WorldMeanDoeWarEndsAttitudePovertyViolenceThis WorldNegativeDefinitionsDiscriminationFactorsInequalityReally MeanMy Attitude Author:Aung San Suu Kyi