Famous quotes containing the words poverty and/or history:
“... what’s been building since the 1980’s is a new kind of social Darwinism that blames poverty and crime and the crisis of our youth on a breakdown of the family. That’s what will last after this flurry on family values.”
—Stephanie Coontz (b. 1944)
“Universal history is the history of a few metaphors.”
—Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)