Poor Quotes

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing. It's not politically viable; it's not morally right; it's just not going to happen.

Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion.

Poor air quality, which can be influenced by a variety of fumes, chemicals and allergens, is arguably the leading cause of triggers for most asthmatics in urban areas.

Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.

Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet.

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

Well when I was young, actually not just me, but we were all poor. Korea used to be one of the poorest countries in the world. Despite such circumstances, I was very, very fortunate to be blessed with having parents who always instilled in a spirit of can-do spirit.

Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The states that changed their abortion laws before Roe are not going to change back. So we have a policy that only affects poor women, and it can never be otherwise.

I applaud the growing commitment of Evangelicals to the needs of the poor and oppressed in urban America.

Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.

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 guess none of us like to look back in our lives to a time when we made poor judgments and foolish mistakes.

Once again, the Republicans in the Senate have rejected an increase in the minimum wage. They support tax breaks for multi-millionaires, but they oppose helping the working poor to earn a decent income.

In 1970 I realized that there was negligible risk from x-rays but many radiographs had poor image quality so that the risk from a false negative was significant.

Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.

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.

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.