“As my father always says, there’s no shame in being poor, but it can be damned inconvenient.”

“Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money.”

“As my father always says, there’s no shame in being poor, but it can be damned inconvenient.”

“No one asks poor people if they want war. Nor had anyone asked these poor people if they wanted to die of thirst and exposure on the coastal sea, or if they wanted to be robbed and raped by their o...”

“Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.”

“The rich are all alike, to revise Tolstoys famous words, but the poor are poor in their own particular ways. Any reasonably intelligent reader could blow that generalization apart in the time it ta...”