“To end the humiliation was a start, but to end poverty is a bigger task.”
1960s, Address to Local 815, Teamsters and the Allied Trades Council (1967)
Context: Today Negroes want above all else to abolish poverty in their lives and in the lives of the white poor. This is the heart of their program. To end the humiliation was a start, but to end poverty is a bigger task. It is natural for Negroes to turn to the labor movement because it was the first and pioneer anti-poverty program….
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American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Ci… 1929–1968Related quotes
“The never-ending task of self improvement.”
“I hope that Live Earth ends global warming the same way the Live Aid ended world poverty.”
In an interview at Live Earth in London
Miscellaneous
“A parents' dissatisfaction causes poverty and leads to humiliation.”
Misnad al-Imām al-Hādī, p. 303.
Religious Wisdom
“If freedom is to be saved and enlarged, poverty must be ended. There is no other solution.”
In Place of Fear, 1952
1950s
“Millions of people throughout the world are striving to put an end to poverty.”
Progress, Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom (1968)
Context: Millions of people throughout the world are striving to put an end to poverty. They despise oppression, dogmatism, and demagogy (and their more extreme manifestations — racism, fascism, Stalinism, and Maoism). They believe in progress based on the use, under conditions of social justice and intellectual freedom, of all the positive experience accumulated by mankind.
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Source: Poverty (1912), p. 7