Poverty History

Famous quotes containing the words poverty and/or history:

    The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)

    [Men say:] “Don’t you know that we are your natural protectors?” But what is a woman afraid of on a lonely road after dark? The bears and wolves are all gone; there is nothing to be afraid of now but our natural protectors.
    Frances A. Griffin, U.S. suffragist. As quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 4, ch. 19, by Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper (1902)