Poor Quotes
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When people get at each other's throat, the rich and the poor and the Left and the Right and so on, and you have a basic breakdown, that becomes very threatening.
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I heard the call to give up all and follow Christ into the slums to serve Him among the poorest of the poor. It was an order.
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Without the piano, I would never have attempted to rap, because I'm a poor rapper. I'm enthusiastic, but it takes me a long time to write eight bars of rap. I would battle any pianist, and yet I would forfeit happily before even getting into a rap battle with anyone.
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The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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I've been to those places where it's 'poor, pitiful me.'
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The most troubling aspect of social policy towards the poor in late 20th century America is or how much it costs, but what it has bought.
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The rich did not care who ruled, as long as they were allowed to be rich. The poor could not afford to care and nobody asked their opinion in any case. Only the middle class mattered and any half-witted ruler knows how to pamper them.
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Back in the thirties we were told we must collectivize the nation because the people were so poor. Now we are told we must collectivize the nation because the people are so rich.
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A lot of rappers say 'I'm talking about stuff that goes on, what I grew up in, that I know about.' And these journalists say, 'Yeah, but you're making 80 million dollars, that stuff's not about you.' Look how long he's been making 80 million. He grew up poor in an urban city and the things he's experienced and knows.
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I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier.
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Though my father was poor and had nothing, the Torah, the poetry of prophets, was his daily bread.
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Bill Cosby is a famous black guy who has a bully pulpit the size of the world; it's global. He puts his colossal foot on the vulnerable necks of poor people, and as a result of that, we don't have a balanced conversation.
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Any politician who starts shouting election-year demagoguery about the rich and the poor should be asked, "What about the other 90 percent of the people?"
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The poor are great! The poor are wonderful! The poor are very generous! They give us much more than what we give them.
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We are not so poor we must destroy our wilderness, nor so rich we can afford to.
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In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.
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You have got to be willing to be poor as an entrepreneur.
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From the very beginning, our state and national constitutions and laws have laid great emphasis on procedural and substantive safeguards designed to assure fair trials before impartial tribunals in which every defendant stands equal before the law. This noble ideal cannot be realized if the poor man charged with crime has to face his accusers without a lawyer to assist him.
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Poverty doesn’t give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance. No, poverty only teaches you how to be poor.
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A friend from India told me that a countryman of his said: "I want to go to America. I want to see a country where poor people are fat."
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The rich get richer and the poor get the picture. I think this Occupy Wall Street thing is great.
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They gave me star treatment when I was making a lot of money. But I was just as good when I was poor.
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Those silly girls had no idea what they were really celebrating. They had no idea what it took to bring Agatha and her friends together seventy-five years ago. The Women's Society Club had been about supporting one another, about banding together to protect one another because no one else would. But it had turned into an ugly beast, a means by which rich ladies would congratulate themselves by giving money to the poor. And Agatha had let it happen. All her life, it seemed, she was making up for things she let happen.
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The fundamental fact in the lives of the poor in most parts of America is that the wages of common labor are far below the benefits of AFDC, Medicaid, food stamps, public housing, public defenders, leisure time and all the other goods and services of the welfare state.
