Lyndon B. Johnson Poverty Quotations

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

This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.

When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name.

There's so much that we have yet to do -- the hunger in the world, the sickness in the world, the poverty in the world. We must apply some of the great talents that we've applied to space to all these problems, and get them done, and get them done in the spirit of what's the greatest good for the greatest number.

For the first time in our history it is possible to conquer poverty.

True poverty does not come from God.

Poverty has many roots, but the tap root is ignorance.

The final conquest of poverty is within our grasp.