Poor Quotes
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Pray for me that I not loosen my grip on the hands of Jesus even under the guise of ministering to the poor.
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Poor communities, frequently communities of color but not exclusively, suffer disproportionately. If you look at where our industrialized facilities tend to be located, they're not in the upper middle class neighborhoods.
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There are many ways of discarding books. You can give them to friends,--or enemies,--or to associations or to poor Southern libraries. But the surest way is to lend them. Then they never come back to bother you.
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When a poor person dies of hunger it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed.
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Sadly, because of the enormous gap between rich and poor, some mothers can afford helpers, but many can't. Those who can would be kinder to refrain from criticizing other women.
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I have no interest in romanticizing poor black people, having been one of them myself in our beloved hometown of Detroit.
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Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.
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To have a specific style is to be poor in speech.
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Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.
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I grew up in the south, poor - on rock, dirt roads.
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The covetous man is always poor.
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In the poorest of the poor we see Jesus in distressed guise.
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To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one's own health as well as theirs: there is a needful gift they have to offer which cannot be offered so long as they are confined by poverty.
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That everybody can do something, without regard to how old or young they are, rich or poor or middle class they are, how busy or not busy they are and what level skills they have. Everyone can do something. And everybody should do something. ... And if you do it, you'll be happier.
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It's unrealistic to think you can only have one good product. People are not that poor. They can buy what they want.
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My empathy for poor people comes from having been one of them for so long, from knowing that their humanity is more complex and that the truths of their suffering have to be told honestly.
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Marriage I think For women Is the best of opiates. It kills the thoughts That think about the thoughts, It is the best of opiates. So said Maria. But too long in solitude she'd dwelt, And too long her thoughts had felt Their strength. So when the man drew near, Out popped her thoughts and covered him with fear. Poor Maria! Better that she had kept her thoughts on a chain, For now she's alone again and all in pain; She sighs for the man that went and the thoughts that stay To trouble her dreams by night and her dreams by day.
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Oh, shut up. He is not saying that he's too good-looking to be friends with girls. But then again, yesterday at the beach, there were a high percentage of beach beauties sitting very close to us and/or sauntering repeatedly past. And he never looked up once. I snort. "You poor handsome thing. If only you were ugly, then girls wouldn't have to throw themselves at you all the time. I could break your perfect nose for you, if it'd make your life easier.
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It's a poor doctor who can't cure one disease without giving you another.
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It is more difficult to fight poverty in a rich country than in a poor one.
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Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out of poverty under the guidance of his widowed grandmother.
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Infinity is a dreadfully poor place. They can never manage to make ends meet.
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Anybody who helps the poor is delighted. So naturally, they (critics) are not very happy with us.
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That difference between the rich and poor is growing every month.
