Famous quotes containing the words poverty and/or history:
“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.”
—Frederick Douglass (c. 1817–1895)
“Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)