Famous quotes containing the words poverty and/or history:
“The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated
classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.”
—William James (1842–1910)
“... the history of the race, from infancy through its stages of barbarism, heathenism, civilization, and Christianity, is a process of suffering, as the lower principles of humanity are gradually subjected to the higher.”
—Catherine E. Beecher (1800–1878)