Poverty Rate

Famous quotes containing the words poverty and/or rate:

“Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

“If we became students of Malcolm X, we would not have young black men out there killing each other like they’re killing each other now. Young black men would not be impregnating young black women at the rate going on now. We’d not have the drugs we have now, or the alcoholism.”
—Spike Lee (b. 1956)