“These economic, social, cultural and educational causes of opportunity inequality are complex. And they will not be solved by continuing with the same stale Washington ideas. Five decades and trillions of dollars after President Johnson waged his War on Poverty, the results of this big-government approach are in.” IdeasWarBigsGovernmentOpportunitySocialCausesPresidentResultsPovertyFiveEconomicApproachDollarsComplexesEducationalDecadesInequalityContinuingJohnsonStaleBig GovernmentWar On PovertyPresident Johnson Author:Marco Rubio
“The United States, which has been called the home of the persecuted and the dispossessed, has been since its founding an asylum for emotional orphans. For over three hundred years, refugees from political oppression, religious persecution, famine, poverty, and a rigid class system which limited educational and economic opportunities have been leaving their native villages and cities and coming to the United States in search of freedom and a better life.” YearsHas BeensStatesHomePoliticalThreeOpportunityReligiousUnitedCitiesClassPovertyUnited StatesEconomicEmotionalHundredLeavingEducationalOppressionNativeVillagePersecutionFoundingRefugeeBetter LifeFamineOrphanAsylumsPersecutedClass SystemReligious PersecutionPolitical Oppression Author:Eileen Simpson
“Sometimes, when you grow up in one of these poverty-stricken neighborhoods where the educational system isn't the best, you don't realize that you have any choices.” SometimesChoicesGrowsRealizingPovertyGrowing UpEducationalNeighborhoodEducational System Author:Keke Palmer
“We kill when we close our eyes to poverty, affliction, or infamy. We kill when, because it is easier, we countenance, or pretend to approve of atrophied social, political, educational, and religious institutions, instead of resolutely combating them.” EyePoliticalSocialReligiousPovertyEasierInstitutionsEducationalAfflictionCountenanceInfamy Author:Hermann Hesse
“We must fight inequality and poverty if we want to re-establish peace and security. Seven million Mexicans live in extreme poverty, which is why I have launched a crusade against hunger. We also have to improve our educational system and stimulate economic growth.” IfsWantFightingGrowthPovertyMillionsEconomicSecuritySevenHungerEducationalExtremesInequalityEconomic GrowthCrusadesEducational SystemExtreme PovertyPeace And Security Author:Enrique Pena Nieto
“It's just cheaper to be White in America than it is to be Black, because of educational advances, because of the police incidents, because of the poverty we grow up in as African-Americans. So, it's just cheaper in this country if you're born a Caucasian than being born a Black person.” IfsPersonsCountryAmericaGrowsBlackBornWhitePovertyGrowing UpPoliceEducationalAfrican AmericanIncidentsCheaperBlack PersonCaucasian Author:Warren Ballentine
“Insofar as Trumpism was understood, it was seen as a side-effect of poverty, ignorance and educational failure. A cry from people who deserved sympathy, but who should never be allowed to set the terms of political debate.” PeopleShouldPoliticalSidesTermPovertyEffectsCryIgnoranceUnderstoodEducationalDebateSide EffectsPolitical Debates Author:Fraser Nelson
“Sometimes, when you grow up in one of these poverty-stricken neighborhoods where the educational system isn't the best, you don't realize that you have any choices. Often, kids don't appreciate the choices available, as if it's either the street or nothing. I want them to understand that reality is what's relative to you, and that you can make choices that allow you to create a new reality for yourself.” IfsWantSometimesRealityKidsChoicesGrowsRealizingPovertyGrowing UpStreetsAppreciateAvailableEducationalNeighborhoodRelativeEducational System Author:Keke Palmer
“Poverty is not really as much of an obstacle to educational expansion as it's sometimes made out to be.” MadeSometimesPovertyObstaclesEducationalExpansion Author:Amartya Sen
“Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged.” PovertyKnowledgeEducationalInspirational RunningEnding PovertyLack Of Knowledge Author:Russell Simmons