Poor Quotes
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The poor never get the job done they are sleepy.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Poor and free rather than rich and enslaved. Of course, men want to be both rich and free, and this is what leads them at times to be poor and enslaved.
Albert Camus
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Society can transport money from rich to poor only in a leaky bucket.
Arthur Melvin Okun
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We are developing in the United States a huge underclass of unwanted people, many of them the descendants of the exploitation of the South American and Latin American countries by American piratical capitalism. Not all capitalism is piratical, but some of it certainly is. And we have a fantastic gap beginning to exist between rich and poor.
Benedict Groeschel
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I wish I had a dollar for every pro-choicer who told me that abortion has to be accessible for poor women... as if being poor makes you an unfit mother.
Abby Johnson
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Freedom is partial to no race. Freedom has no religion. Freedom favors no ethnicity. Freedom discriminates not between rich and poor countries. Inevitably freedom will overwhelm Ethiopia.
Eskinder Nega
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Evermore thanks, the exchequer of the poor
William Shakespeare
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Do not let the bread of the hungry mildew in your larder! Do not let moths eat the poor man's cloak. Do not store the shoes of the barefoot. Do not hoard the money of the needy. Things you possess in too great abundance belong to the poor and not to you. You are the thief who steals from God if you are able to help your neighbor and refuse to do it.
Christine de Pizan
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The future lies with those companies who see the poor as their customers.
C. K. Prahalad
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Poor Grendel's had an accident. So may you all.
John Gardner
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Poor health is not caused by something you don't have; it's caused by disturbing something that you already have. Health is not something you need to get, it's something you have already if you don't disturb it.
Dean Ornish
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Walk with the rich Walk with the poor Learn from everybody That's what life is for.
Eric Bibb
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My friends were poor, but honest, so's my love.
William Shakespeare
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I thought I'd be living a much more bohemian life and be very poor. I never thought I'd do comedy or be married living in the suburbs. Every time I try to plan my life out it just doesn't come to pass, and I think that's a great experience.
Michael Ian Black
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I am a beggar for the poor. Serving humanity is the biggest Jihad.
Abdul Sattar Edhi
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Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched.
Josiah Strong
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If you're gonna build units for the rich, you're gonna build units for the poor.
Cleve Jones
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Our upside down welfare state is socialism for the rich, free enterprise for the poor.
William O. Douglas
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Racism is the snobbery of the poor.
Raymond Aron
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Sacred cows make very poor gladiators.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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The more ugly, old, nasty, ill, and poor I become the more I want to get my own back by producing vibrant, well-arranged, radiant colour.
Vincent Van Gogh
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The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor.
Josiah Strong
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I understand that people might be poor if they don't have any work, but I don't accept that someone is poor if they've worked really hard.
Nicolas Sarkozy
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Anyway, seeking work is a tad difficult given the poor design of the streets with their prohibitive curbs and driveways that don't quite line up.
Steve Martin