“I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back. -Tolstoy”
― Poverty, by America
― Poverty, by America
“Just because desperate people seek out exploitative conditions doesn't make those conditions any less exploitative.”
― Poverty, by America
― Poverty, by America
“By one estimate, simply collecting unpaid federal income taxes from the top 1 percent of households would bring in some $175 billion a year. We could just about fill the entire poverty gap in America if the richest among us simply paid all the taxes they owed.”
― Poverty, by America
― Poverty, by America
“liberals have a despondency problem: fluent in the language of grievance and bumbling in the language of repair.”
― Poverty, by America
― Poverty, by America
“Choosing to have a child outside of marriage may be an individual choice, but condemning many of those parents and their children to a life of poverty is a societal one.”
― Poverty, by America
― Poverty, by America
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