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“Poor people can be greedy, too. It's just that they don't have any material resources. We need shaping of the souls as well as shaping of our institutions.”

People Needs Wells Soul Poor Materials Resources Institutions Greedy Poor People

Author:Cornel West

“Martin Luther King Jr's agenda was not to help Negroes overcome American apartheid in the south. It was to make America democracy a better place, where everyday people, from poor people who were white and red and yellow and black and brown, would be able to live lives in decency and dignity.”

“There are different varieties and forms of capitalism. There are priorities within the capitalist society so that you can have countervailing forces come in and empower your working people and your poor people. There are capitalist societies that do not have poverty. America needs to understand that.”

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Author:Cornel West

“I'm not pessimistic, because poor people tend to bounce back. We've been through worse than this - working people been through worse than this. We've got slavery and Jim Crow. We've got workers with no rights up until `35. We're going to bounce back. We are resilient, resisting people. So, it's not pessimism, but it is blues-like. It's not optimistic. We're just prisoners of hope, that's all.”

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Author:Cornel West

“Viva Italia! Goodbye to all poor peoples everywhere! ... Pusha da button!”

Poor Goodbye Buttons Poor People Viva

Author:Giuseppe Zangara

“In situations of sparse resources along with degraded self-images and depoliticized sensibilities, one avenue for poor people is in existential rebellion and anarchic expression. The capacity to produce social chaos is the last resort of desperate people.”

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Book:The Cornel West Reader

Source: The Cornel West Reader

“Poor people always lose in struggles.”

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Author:Michael Servetus

“If we have learned anything in the past ten years, it is that these lovely things about America were never lovely. We have been expansionist and aggressive and mean to other people from the beginning. And we've been aggressive and mean to people in this country, and we've allocated the wealth of this country in a very unjust way. We've never had justice in our courts for the poor people, for black people, for radicals. Now how can we boast that America is a very special place? It's not that special. It really isn't.”

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Author:Howard Zinn

“Most poor people in America are white. The family breakdown issue is an issue that crosses all sorts of racial lines. High school dropout issues. But because of the flow of events which involve the racial component, we've sometimes confused racial issues with other issues which are trans-racial.”

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Author:David Brooks

“We don't have a choice about Facebook any more. The choice element is less obvious than it seems. Maybe the 1bn poor people and a few hundred thousand rich people can afford not to be on it.. the rest of us don't have any choice.”

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Author:Andrew Keen

“I will continue to find ways to help poor people find a job, get a job, and learn someday to own the job.”

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Author:Newt Gingrich

“A thought crossed his mind: How do you make poor people feel wealthy when wages are stagnant? You give them cheap loans.”

People Giving Feels Mind Poor Wealthy Wages Poor People Loan Stagnant

Book:The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (movie tie-in)

Source: The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (movie tie-in)

“Foreign aid goes from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.”

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Author:Rand Paul

“I've not given them (the poor people of Bihar) heaven, but I've given them a voice.”

People Given Heaven Voice Poor Poor People Bihar

Author:Lalu Prasad Yadav

“Poor people always pay back their loans. [...] It is us, the designers of institutions and rules, who keep creating trouble for them.”

People Poor Pay Trouble Creating Institutions Creator Poor People Loan

Author:Muhammad Yunus

“With the more endowed nations constrained by their own higher technological capacity for self-destruction as well as by self interest, war may have become a luxury that only the poor peoples of this world can afford.”

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Book:The Grand Chessboard

Source: The Grand Chessboard

“Rich people are poor people with money.”

People Poor Rich Poor People Rich People

Author:George Orwell

“The trouble with blaming powerless people is that although it's not nearly as scary as blaming the powerful, it does miss the point. Poor people do not shut down factories... Poor people didn't decide to use 'contract employees' because they cost less and don't get any benefits.”

People Doe Use Poor Powerful Trouble Missing Cost Benefits Blame Scary Employee Contracts Factories Powerless Poor People

Book:You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You

Source: You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You

“A nation that will keep people in slavery for 244 years will "thingify" them and make them things. And therefore, they will exploit them and poor people generally economically. And a nation that will exploit economically will have to have foreign investments and everything else, and it will have to use its military might to protect them. All of these problems are tied together. What I'm saying today is that we must go from this convention and say, "America, you must be born again!"”

“The reader may ask himself if this is not cruelty and injustice of a kind so terrible that it beggars the imagination, and whether these poor people would not fare far better if they were entrusted to the devils in Hell than they do at the hands of the devils of the New World who masquerade as Christians.”

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Author:Bartolome de las Casas

“The ground is the symbol for the poor people; the poor people is gonna open up this whole world and swallow up the rich people. It's gonna be like - there might be some cannibalism out this mother. They might eat the rich.”

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Author:Tupac Shakur

“If poor people want food stamps, they should become massive corporations.”

People Ifs Want Should Poor Corporations Massive Stamps Poor People Food Stamps

Author:Stephen Colbert

“Creative new health strategies like micro-insurance for poor people or Kangaroo care for pre-term babies are transforming health outcomes in even the most low-resource settings. Dedication and innovation are transforming health care worldwide.”

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Author:Liya Kebede

“A calling is you feel - you look out and see the need - maybe it's the need for the poor, to help poor people. Maybe it's the need to get involved in the race problem, as Martin Luther King was - felt called.”

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Author:Billy Graham

“If sometimes our poor people have had to die of starvation, it is not that God didn't care for them, but because you and I didn't give, were not an instrument of love in the hands of God, to give them that bread, to give them that clothing; because we did not recognize him, when once more Christ came in distressing disguise, in the hungry man, in the lonely man, in the homeless child, and seeking for shelter.”

“There are more differences between poor people than between middle-class people.”

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Author:Rita Mae Brown

“When you start paying people to be poor, you wind up with an awful lot of poor people.”

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Author:Milton Friedman

“We know by now how to photograph poor people. What we don't know is how to photograph affluence - whose other face is poverty.”

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Author:Dorothea Lange

“I was very sad for many days when I discovered that in the world there were poor people and rich people; and the strange thing is that the existence of the poor did not cause me as much pain as the knowledge that at the same time there were people who were rich.”

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Author:Evita Peron

“Poor people who had escaped from poverty as I had, feared it, hated it and fled from it all their lives. Those born rich could afford to be touched by it.”

People Born Poor Poverty Rich Hated Touched Poor People Rich And Poor

Book:Red ribbon on a white horse

Source: Red ribbon on a white horse

“They are the kind of people who are embarrassed by money, a dead middle-class giveaway. Poor people are not embarrassed by money and are contemptuous of those who are.”

People Kind Poor Money Class Middle Middle Class Embarrassed Poor People Contemptuous

Book:Civil Wars

Source: Civil Wars

“I didn't say one negative word about poor people or about middle-class people or anything else. All I said was that the rich deserve our gratitude.”

People Said Poor Class Rich Middle Gratitude Deserve Negative Middle Class Poor People Negative Words

Author:Bernard Goldberg

“I think drugs affect poor people and people of color more than anyone.”

People Thinking Poor Color Drug Poor People

Author:Al Sharpton

“All my businesses are scrupulously legal. Not because I have any moral problems with crime. It just makes my life easier to obey the law. Crime is for poor people; you don't need to rob the bank if you own it.”

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Book:I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President

Source: I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President

“The United States of America is the richest country in the world; yet we're the worst at taking care of poor people.”

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Author:Unita Blackwell

“Do not really like rich people, as they make us poor people feel dopey and inadequate. Not that we are poor. I would say we are middle. We are very, very lucky. I know that. But still, it is not right that rich people make us middle people feel dopey and inadequate.”

People Knows Feels Stills Poor Rich Middle Lucky Poor People Rich People Inadequate

Book:Tenth of December: Stories

Source: Tenth of December: Stories

“Hip-hop is a voice for voiceless poor people.”

People Voice Poor Hip Hop Hips Hops Poor People Voiceless

Author:Russell Simmons

“When I go out in the morning and see these men standing in their queues and look into their pinched faces, then I believe I would be no Christian, but a very devil, if I felt no pity for them, if I did not, as did our Lord two thousand years ago, turn against those by whom today this poor people are plundered and exposed.”

Source: The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922-August 1939: An English Translation of Representative Passages Arranged Under Subjects and Edited by Norman H. Baynes

“Avoid debt that doesn’t pay you. Make it a rule that you never use debt that won’t make you money. I borrowed money for a car only because I knew it could increase my income. Rich people use debt to leverage investments and grow cash flows. Poor people use debt to buy things that make rich people richer.”

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Author:Grant Cardone

“The world is full of smart, poor people.”

People World Poor Smart Poor People Smart People

Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“We're the only nation in the world where most of our poor people are fat.”

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Author:Phil Gramm

“America is divided by economics, and we as Americans, we've got to do a better job of supporting poor people.”

People Jobs America Poor Economics Divided Poor People Better Jobs

Author:Charles Barkley

“I believe in the Democratic party, and their philosophy and what they stand for - for the poor people.”

People Believe Philosophy I Believe Poor Party Democratic I Believe In Poor People Democratic Party

Author:Dikembe Mutombo

“I've always stood on one fact - that all over the world, there are only two things, the Establishment and the poor people. The poor people are a massive majority and across the world they are exploited in different kinds of ways. The Establishment depends on exploiting raw materials and the poor.”

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Author:Hugh Masekela

“We need to accept the principle that sometimes poor people will die just because they are poor.”

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Author:Tyler Cowen

“Sleep is a most useful and most salutary operation of nature. Scarcely any minor annoyance angers me more than the being suddenly awakened out of a pleasant slumber. I understand that in Italy they torture poor people by depriving them of sleep. `Tis a torture that cannot long be endured.”

People Long Sleep Poor Healing Operations Torture Pleasant Minors Poor People Awakened Slumber Annoyance Depriving

Book:The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt

Source: The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt

“Mitt Romney is saying his comments about liking to fire people were taken out of context. Yeah, what he actually said was he likes to set poor people on fire.”

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Author:Conan O'Brien

“The way the [welfare] programs are organized, poor people are only paid to do things that are counter-productive - such as breaking up their families, such as not earning above a certain level of income.”

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Author:Thomas Sowell

“Go, all of you poor people, in the name of God the Creator, and let him forever be your guide. And henceforth, do not be beguiledby these idle and useless pilgrimages. See to your families, and work, each one of you, in your vocation, raise your children, and live as the good Apostle Paul teaches you.”

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Author:Francois Rabelais

“I'm a Christian. I believe that greatness has to do with the quality of love shown to the least of thy brethren and the quality of service to those who are catching hell. When you look at it in that sense, I'd say America has had great moments, but I wouldn't call it a great nation. I don't think there have been any great nations in the history of the world, because in every nation you find poor people being subjugated. So, I see the term "great nation" as a contradiction, as an oxymoron.”