Poverty Action Group

Famous quotes containing the words poverty, action and/or group:

““It’s a wery remarkable circumstance, sir”, said Sam, “that poverty and oysters seems to go together.””
—Charles Dickens (1812–1870)

“All real freedom springs from necessity, for it can be gained only through the exercise of the individual will, and that will can be roused to energetic action only by the force of necessity acting upon it from the outside to spur it to effort.”
—Anna C. Brackett (1836–1911)

“For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo.”
—Nicholson Baker (b. 1957)