The American poor are pessimistic and defeated, and they are victimized by mental suffering to a degree unknown in Suburbia.

The millions who are poor in the United States tend to become increasingly invisible.

America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known.

Beauty and myths are perennial masks of poverty.

People who are much too sensitive to demand of cripples that they run races ask of the poor that they get up and act just like everyone else in the society

The teacher's chief difficulty is poverty. He (or she) belongs to a badly paid profession. He cannot dress and live like a workman, but he is sometimes paid as little as an unskilled laborer.

Many of the snarly bad-tempered teachers whom we remember with hatred were really nice people soured by years of anxiety and penny-pinching.

The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility

Poverty comes pleading, not for charity, for the most part, but imploring us to find a purchaser for its unmarketable wares.

This growing poverty in the midst of growing population constitutes a permanent menace to peace. And not only to peace, but also to democratic institutions and personal liberty For overpopulation is not compatible with freedom.