I'm always more at home with people who were born poor.

Someone born poor and raised poor may never have been able to break the habits of poverty.

From the other side, it's not someone's fault that they're born rich or poor.

Being born poor and black, she says, means making the best of it.

He was born poor, but was a free person of color.

Born poor, raised by a single mother, he learned from life itself the value of hard work, education and opportunity for everybody.

Dona was born poor, in Nicaragua, one of 11 children.

I was born poor, a peasant in a foreign land.

No excuses because you happen to be born black and poor.

At any given moment, about one child in four is born poor.