Progress and Poverty was the most closely knit, fascinating, and convincing specimen of argumentation that, I believe, ever sprang from the mind of man.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do something for the poor.
Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.
Traditionally the great men of our country have sprung from poor environments; that being so, it would appear we have long suffered from a severe lack of poverty.
It was a way out of poverty. It was a way to success. It was a way to education. And it was a way to a brighter day for me.
Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse.
I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.
For too long, we've attached some mythic notion to government solutions, and yet, 40 years after we began the War on Poverty, poverty still abounds.
Economic development and poverty alleviation are so complicated that I don't think there's a single background or a single discipline that is sufficient to tackle these great human problems.
As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.
There is not a single indication in man's wonderful mechanism that he was created for a life of poverty. There is something larger and grander for him in the divine plan than perpetual slavery to the bread-winning problem.