Most organizations should be pro-active but philanthropists concerned with poverty should deliberately be reactive learning from the efforts of ordinary folks who tired of looking the other way as their communities fell apart.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged.

The way that a handful of corporations in Los Angeles dictate how our stories are told creates a real poverty of imagination and it's a big problem.

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything even poverty you can survive it.

Divorce is one of the key predictors of poverty for a child growing up in a home that's broken.

In Afghanistan there is a plan to build democracy hundreds of thousands of troops are protecting it. There is a plan to rebuild and reconstruct there. But many thousands of Americans die from violence and poverty every year and we don't have a plan for reconstruction at home.

Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war.

There are more than 300 000 families in the Gulf region that lost their homes and are waiting for peace of mind. The hurricane exposed the sad reality of poverty in America. We saw in all its horrific detail the vulnerabilities of living in inadequate housing and the heartbreak of losing one's home.

What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?