Poor Quotes
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I did not believe what I was told about being poor and black and female in Mississippi in 1954.
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Friend, you cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. And what one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government can't give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody. And when half of the people get the idea they don't have to work because the other half's going to take care of them, and when the other half get the idea it does no good to work because somebody's going to get what I work for. That, dear friend, is about the end of any nation.
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Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.
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You took a walk on a Sunday afternoon and came to a nice neighborhood, very refined. You saw a small one of these trees through the iron gate leading to someone's yard and you knew that soon that section of Brooklyn would get to be a tenement district. The tree knew. It came there first. Afterwards, poor foreigners seeped in and the quiet old brownstone houses were hacked up into flats, feather beds were pushed out on the window sills to air and the Tree of Heaven flourished. That was the kind of tree it was. It liked poor people.
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There must be Religion. Otherwise the poor would murder the rich.
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The rich are becoming richer, and the gap between the rich and the poor is getting bigger.
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What women would do if they could not cry, nobody knows. What poor, defenceless creatures they would be!
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A poor original is better than a good imitation.
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Poor or fuzzy communications are major time-wasters. Take the time to be crystal-clear in your communications with others.
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I know what it's like to be pregnant and nervous and poor.
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I ask you, what am I? I’m one of the undeserving poor: thats what I am. Think of what that means to a man.
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You know, I am sorry for the poor fellows that haven't got labs to work in.
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If Slater were someone else, Kevin would merely be the poor victim of a horrible plot. Unless he was killed by Slater, in which case he would be the dead victim of a horrible plot
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The poor taxpayer may wipe his shoes on a $3 doormat when he goes home, but not the Navy. It is, damn the cost, full feet ahead on a doormat you would be ashamed to get muddy.
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Democracy cannot flourish half rich and half poor, any more than it can flourish half free and half slave.
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Do diddle di do, Poor Jim Jay Got stuck fast In Yesterday.
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The Poor Peasants' Committees are necessary to fight the kulaks, the rich, the exploiters, who shackle the working peasants.
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It was in the reign of George II. that the above-named personages lived and quarrelled ; good or bad, handsome or ugly, rich or poor, they are all equal now
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My school and my tribe are so poor and sad that we have to study from the same dang books our parents studied from. That is absolutely the saddest thing in the world.
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Generally speaking in America, a lot of environmentally problematic facilities tend to be located in places where poor folks live because wealthier folks have the ability to say, "not in my backyard."
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I grew up in South Florida, and my family was pretty poor. We weren't your upper-class whites by any means.
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Wealth covers sin - the poor / Are naked as a pin.
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Sacred cows make very poor gladiators.
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Yet but three come one more. Two of both kinds make up four. Ere she comes curst and sad. Cupid is a knavish lad. Thus to make poor females mad.
