Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

James Baldwin

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Poverty

Author

James Baldwin

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Fifth Avenue, Uptown; A Letter from Harlem Esquire

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Essay Magazine

Language

English

Time

1960 1960s 20th century

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Black writer Writer

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United States

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Baldwin, James. "Fifth Avenue, Uptown; A Letter from Harlem." Esquire, July 1960.

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We have to live without sympathy, don't we? That's impossible of course. We act it to one another, this hardness; but we aren't like that really. I mean... One can't be out in the cold all the time; one has to come in from the cold... Do you see what I mean?

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Medium
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Time
1963 1960s 20th century
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It would be hard to find a single instance of a direct assault by positive effort upon poverty, vice, and misery which has not either failed or, if it has not failed directly and entirely, has not entailed other evils greater than the one which it removed.

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Public policy Poverty

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William Graham Sumner
Source
Sociology
Medium
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Genre
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Language
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Time
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Citation

Sumner, William Graham. "Sociology." The Princeton Review, May 1881.