Poor Quotes

When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and all the blacks were still poor. Materially, not much changed.

Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.

I teach at Eastern University, which is highly committed to doing work among the poor and the oppressed peoples of the world. We have a special commitment to the city.

Poor people and working people have not been the focus of the Obama administration. That for me is not just a disappointment but a kind of betrayal.

While Haiti has recently celebrated more than 200 years of independence from French colonial rule, the citizens of the island remain vulnerable to poverty, poor health, and political chaos.

Human dignity is independent of national borders. We must always defend the interests of the poor and the persecuted in other countries.

Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts.

We are privileged. There are poor people out there. We must to do something to make them privileged.

Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!

I was lucky to come from a difficult area. It teaches you not just about football but also life. There were lots of kids from different races and poor families. People had to struggle to get through the day.

Back then, we didn't know we were poor, and people were more proud then.

When you come from desperate poverty, and that's exactly what I come from, you know that nonsenses are not to be tolerated. I'm not sure who gains from chaos, but I know it's not the poor folks in the council flats. The politics of vindictiveness is never, ever anything like a solution.

The American Dream, coupled with government subsidies of utilities and cheap consumer goods courtesy of slave labour somewhere else, has kept the poor huddled masses from rising up.

Few, save the poor, feel for the poor.

As kids we didn't complain about being poor; we talked about how rich we were going to be and made moves to get the lifestyle we aspired to by any means we could. And as soon as we had a little money, we were eager to show it.

There's a wider agenda that speaks to what the Democratic Party has historically stood for, which are economic rights for those who are struggling in the middle class, concern for the poor, for economic justice for those who are marginalized in our society.

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

The poor man is he who, having much, craves for more.

The real solution is to improve the incomes of the poor and provide their children with decent education.

And my real enemy is not to hold the specimen sterile, but it's the lighting. The light is our real enemy. So we have to work with very very poor lighting. But we can increase the light with computers.

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.

I will continue to find ways to help poor people find a job, get a job, and learn someday to own the job.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.

Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

Anybody who runs for president in this country and comes out as strong as the Democrats were about helping the poor folks and black folks is not going to win.

When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.

The shock caused by the September 11 events has also lead to a thorough reflection on the existing disparity between rich and poor countries, on the misery of populations of the South.

While the President leads his potential adversaries in almost every state, his support is soft. He is seen as honest, sincere, just, and friendly but gets mediocre or relatively poor ratings being competent strong, intelligent, and a forceful leader.