Poor Quotes
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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 was so poor for so long that I didn't use anything. I didn't drive cars, I didn't eat very much. So, I figured the world owed me a debt, so I've been eating very well and have had a very big car for a long time. But I still haven't caught up with my youth.
Michael Caine
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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
Honore de Balzac
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When you're poor and black in America, you stand a greater chance of going to prison for something you didn't do.
Anthony Ray Hinton
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Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
William Penn
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They did not speak, surprised to see how simple, almost poor, happiness could be, yes, materially poor and yet so abundant.
Andreï Makine
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In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.
Andrew Young
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We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.
Bill Gates
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The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.
Victor Hugo
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It is extremely important that mass media, having freed from the relics of the Cold War, served for peace and dialogue between nations and religions, the rich and the poor, countries and continents.
Nursultan Nazarbayev
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Developing films with directors, developing films with actors, is a poor percentage play for a screenwriter.
Tony Gilroy
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Earlier research has shown that poor blood flow can damage these parts of the brain. So one theory is that exercise may prevent damage and might even help repair these areas by increasing blood flow.
Bill Vaughan
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Budget cuts if you're not rich, tax cuts if you are. Less money for those who don't have any and more to those who do. That's how President Fredo says we're going to get out of the giant deficit hole he's dug. You can't put it any more simply. Rich people richer. Poor people poorer.
Will Durst
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While women weep, as they do now, I'll fight While little children go hungry, as they do now, I'll fight While men go to prison, in and out, in and out, as they do now, I'll fight While there is a drunkard left, While there is a poor lost girl upon the streets, While there remains one dark soul without the light of God, I'll fight-I'll fight to the very end!
William Booth
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It is a deed of greater charity to give a bit of bread to the poor in the time of high prices and famine, than a whole loaf in the time of fertility and abundance.
Christine de Pizan
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The rich must live more simply, so that the poor may simply live.
Charles Birch
