To be poor is to be without an advocate-in dealing with a landlord, a creditor, or a government bureaucrat.
Lyndon Johnson: “To be poor is to be without an advocate-in dealing with a landlord, a creditor, or a government bureaucrat.”
On the recordMarch 13, 1967
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Special Message to the Congress: America's Unfinished Business, Urban and Rural Poverty
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