“I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.” MadeValuesLiteratureBornPoorPovertyFateTaughtTrue Value Author:Anatole France
“Three were the fates. Poverty that chains; gray drudgery that grinds the hope away, and gaping ignorance that starves the soul.” SoulThreePovertyFateIgnoranceChainsGrayGrindDrudgery Author:Edwin Markham
“The death of American liberalism as a significant moral force can be traced to the point in when President Bill Clinton signed legislation that effectively ended the main federal anti-poverty program and turned the fate of welfare recipients, 70 percent of whom were children, over to the tender mercies of the states. With a stroke of the pen, Clinton eliminated what remained of New Deal-era compassion for the poor and codified into law the "tough love" callousness that his Republican allies in the Congress, led by Newt Gingrich, had long embraced.” ChildrenLongStatesLawForcePresidentPoorDealsCompassionMoralPovertyFateRepublicanPercentToughProgramMercyBillsClintonCongressSignificantErasWelfareLiberalismPensAlliesLegislationStrokesNewtsNew DealTough LoveCallousnessPresident Bill ClintonTender MerciesWelfare Recipients Author:Robert Scheer
“To think health when surrounded by the appearances of disease or to think riches when in the midst of the appearances of poverty requires power, but whoever acquires this power becomes a mastermind. That person can conquer fate and can have what he or she wants.” ThinkingWantPersonsPovertyFateDiseaseAppearanceRichesConquerAcquireMidstMastermind Author:Wallace D. Wattles
“If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.” IfsWayHumansMadeWarWould BeHuman BeingsPovertyFateResponsibleMy WayTeamworkNo WarUnison Author:Anais Nin
“And it was as if fate had betrayed the soldier. In death it exposed to his enemies that poverty which in life he had perhaps concealed from his friends.” IfsEnemyPovertyFateSoldierExposedBetrayedConcealed Book:The Red Badge of Courage Source: The Red Badge of Courage