Poverty Level

Famous quotes containing the words poverty and/or level:

“Such poverty as we have today in all our great cities degrades the poor, and infects with its degradation the whole neighborhood in which they live. And whatever can degrade a neighborhood can degrade a country and a continent and finally the whole civilized world, which is only a large neighborhood.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

“Even a nine story pagoda must be built up level by level.”
—Chinese proverb.