Poor Quotes

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor - got her master's with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.

The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor.

All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

The issues that matter to me are the social safety nets for people, health care, middle-class concerns. We need to take care of the middle class and the poor in our country.

Washington is a great international city and in the congregation we have people who are rich and poor, black and white, and from every part of the world.

It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.

Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.

I was very poor and I was a waitress, and it's hard to be a poor waitress in New York.

My father came from a very poor background, but I was very fortunate in the sense that we were never in need. My dad was determined to make sure that we didn't want for things. He wanted to give us more opportunity than he had, a better shot at a better life.

Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.

I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

Who says Australia offers not a home for every poor Englishman, or any other countryman that finds his way to our shores? And what sort of thanks do we get for it?

The tax code is not the only area where the administration is helping the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. It has spent $155 billion for an unnecessary war driven by fear.

I am the son of poor peasants who came at a very young age to live in Algeria. I only recently saw the place where they were born, near the city of Marrakech.

As farmers or owners, the poor peasants possess a piece of land. The excellent means of transport enables them often to sell their goods. At the very worst they can mostly provide their own food.

Italy is divided between us and them, rich and poor, north and south, young and old, employed and unemployed.

Proponents of the Central America Free Trade Agreement have conveniently ignored this fundamental fact: the effect of trade on incomes in Central America and how to alleviate the adverse consequences of trade liberalization on the poor.

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

In the end, we may be hurting the very people we should be concerned about - the inner-city poor, those who already have to live with many risks in their daily lives, those who do not have clout here in Washington.

The whole world knows that His glory has not been spread by force and weapons, but by poor fishermen.

Apparently I'm the most naked that anyone's been on TNT. My poor mother. I'm ready to run away.

We need to reclaim our American system of limited government, low taxes, reasonable regulations, and sound money, which has blessed us with unprecedented prosperity. And it has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed.

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of its infant poor.

I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise.

In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.

Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though.