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)

“The grand principles of virtue and honor, however they may be distorted by arbitrary codes, are the same the world over: and where these principles are concerned, the right or wrong of any action appears the same to the uncultivated as to the enlightened mind.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.”
—Freda Adler (b. 1934)