Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
-- Aristotle
BC 384-322, Greek
Philosopher
Poverty is an anomaly to rich people. It is very
difficult to make out why people who want dinner do
not ring the bell.
-- Walter Bagehot
1826-1877, British
Economist, Critic
Anyone
who has struggled with poverty knows how extremely
expensive it is to be poor.
-- James Baldwin
1924-1987, American
Author
The
poverty of our century is unlike that of any other.
It is not, as poverty was before, the result of
natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed
upon the rest of the world by the rich.
Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied but
written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer
economy has produced the first culture for which a
beggar is a reminder of nothing.
-- John Berger
1926-, British Actor,
Critic
