American Poverty Quotes

• If you want to get at African American poverty, the income gap, wealth gap, achievement gap, that the most important thing is to make sure that the society as a whole does right by people who are poor, are working class, are aspiring to a better life for their kids.

  Barack Obama

  Kids, Class, People

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• I had consumed a lot of American culture, but I was not quite prepared for the reality of American poverty.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Reality, Culture, Poverty

  "The Rumpus Interview With Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie". Interview with Kima Jones, therumpus.net. June 17, 2014.

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• There is a deep sadness to American poverty, greater than the sadness of any other kind. It's because America has such an ideology of success.

  Will Self

  Sadness, America, Poverty

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• I think one of the most important American films is "Jackie Brown", which is such a humble depiction of humble characters but so powerful. The film was pure depiction of the American poverty of the 90s.

  Arnaud Desplechin

  Powerful, Humble, Character

  "INTERVIEW: Soul Searching, or Searching for a Soul; Enigmatic Desplechin Returns with 'Esther Kahn'" by Andrea Meyer, www.indiewire.com. February 27, 2002.

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• The psychological pain--and the ethical shame--of American poverty are made greater by the fact that this country possesses the wealth and the energy to raise all children to a minimally decent standard of living.

  Kenneth Keniston

  Country, Pain, Children

  Kenneth Keniston, Carnegie Council on Children (1977). “All our children: the American family under pressure”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• One of the things that struck me when I came to the U.S. was discovering American poverty.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Poverty, Discovering

  "The Rumpus Interview With Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie". Interview with Kima Jones, therumpus.net. June 17, 2014.

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• I lived below the official American poverty line until I was 31.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Lines, Poverty, Officials

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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