I was an anomaly because my father was a Harvard man, and he came from a family of poor people.

Frequently you'll see pictures from overseas with all those poor people but when it's your own family, your own countrymen, it brings it home and makes you feel it a little bit more.

I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things.

We do not want to be reminded that it is we, the indigenous people, who are poor and exploited in the land of our birth.

This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color. Every few years you will see some great change in the way that they approach this. We've had the war on poverty that never really got into waging a real war on poverty.

Back in the thirties we were told we must collectivize the nation because the people were so poor. Now we are told we must collectivize the nation because the people are so rich.