Poor Quotes
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Rich honesty dwells like a miser, Sir, in a poor house; as your pearl in your foul oyster.
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Poor and afflicted and oppressed people have faces, and we are required to look squarely into them. We can't love what we won't experience.
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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.
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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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The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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... the subjective viewpoint is the only one to use regarding a library. Your true library is a collection of the books you want.You may have deplorably poor taste or bad judgment. Never mind. Correct those traits before you exchange your books.
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The really poor man is not the one who lacks money, but the one who lacks the joy of the heart.
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The biggest and most deadly 'tax' rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefits - food stamps, housing subsidies and the like - if their income goes up.
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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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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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I've been to those places where it's 'poor, pitiful me.'
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And makes me poor indeed.
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Christianity is about learning to love like Jesus loved and Jesus loved the poor and Jesus loved the broken.
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Politicians will not put forth programs aimed at the problems of poor blacks while their turnout remains so low.
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In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.
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We tried to provide more for the poor and produced more poor instead. We tried to remove the barriers to escape poverty, and inadvertently built a trap.
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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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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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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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We have a vow to give wholeheartedly everything to the poor.
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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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After the group vet appointment--during which Lyle scratched the vet, the vet tech, and some poor woman minding her own business in the waiting room--we went back to Sabrina's and re-released the cats to their natural habitat.
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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?"
