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“I came to the realization that a strong female is frightening to everybody, because all societies are male-dominated, black societies, poor people, rich people, any racial group, they're all dominated by men. A strong female is going to threaten everybody across the board...”

People Men Strong Black Poor Rich Groups Female Males Realization Boards Frightening Poor People Rich People Strong Female

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“What is entrepreneurship, after all? Bigness is not the issue. Poor people are the ones who take challenges every day. The guy who sells a hot dog on the street is as much an entrepreneur as anyone else. Getting his $50 loan to start could be as difficult as finding $50 million for someone else. All people are entrepreneurs.”

People Guy Difficult Challenges Poor Millions Issues Streets Dog Findings Hot Sells Entrepreneur Entrepreneurship Poor People Loan Hot Dog

Author:Muhammad Yunus

“...poor people are just as human as anyone else. They have just as much potential as anyone.”

People Humans Poor Poor People

Author:Muhammad Yunus

“Rich people are excellent receivers. Poor people are poor receivers.”

People Poor Rich Excellent Poor People Rich People Receiver

Author:T. Harv Eker

“Rich people admire other rich and successful people. Poor people resent rich and successful people.”

People Poor Successful Rich Admire Successful People Poor People Rich People Resent

Author:T. Harv Eker

“Poor people are as much in danger from an inordinate desire towards the wealth of the world as rich from an inordinate delight in it.”

People World Desire Wealth Poor Rich Danger Delight Poor People

Book:The NIV Matthew Henry Commentary in One Volume: Based on the Broad Oak Edition

Source: The NIV Matthew Henry Commentary in One Volume: Based on the Broad Oak Edition

“Political systems must love poverty-they produce so much of it. Poor people make easier targets for a demagogue. No Mao or even Jiang Zemin is likely to arise on the New York Stock Exchange floor. And politicians in democracies benefit from destitution, too. The US has had a broad range of poverty programs for 30 years. Those programs have failed. Millions of people are still poor. And those people vote for politicians who favor keeping the poverty programs in place. There's a conspiracy theory in there somewhere.”

Source: Eat the Rich: A Treatise on Economics

“We need a better strategy for poor people...because what we're doing isn't working.”

People Needs Poor Strategy Poor People

Author:Mick Cornett

“Poor people have the desire to prosper but their mindset stop them.”

People Desire Poor Mindset Poor People

Author:Matthew Ashimolowo

“Budget cuts if you're not rich, tax cuts if you are. Less money for those who don't have any and more to those who do. That's how President Fredo says we're going to get out of the giant deficit hole he's dug. You can't put it any more simply. Rich people richer. Poor people poorer.”

People Ifs President Poor Rich Cutting Taxes Holes Budgets Giants Poor People Deficit Rich People Tax Cuts Budget Cuts

Author:Will Durst

“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."”

People Want Said Country America Poor India Fats Poor People Countrymen

Author:Thomas Sowell

“[Giving welfare to poor people] is the equivalent of the government sending [fat people] a jumbo bag of Bugles in the mail twice a month.”

People Giving Government Poor Months Fats Welfare Bags Mail Poor People Fat People

Author:Adam Carolla

“Welfare now erodes work and family and thus keeps poor people poor. Accompanying welfare is an ideology - sustaining a whole system of federal and state bureaucracies - that also operates to destroy their faith. The ideology takes the form of false theories of discrimination and spurious claims of racism and sexism as the dominant forces in the lives of the poor.”

People States Whole Form Force Poor Theory Racism Claims Discrimination Ideology Welfare Sexism Dominant Bureaucracy Poor People Sustaining Erode

Book:Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century

Source: Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century

“China has many successful entrepreneurs and business people. I hope that more people of insight will put their talents to work to improve the lives of poor people in China and around the world, and seek solutions for them.”

People World Poor Successful Talent Solutions Entrepreneur China Insight Around The World Poor People Successful Entrepreneurs

Author:Bill Gates

“Despite what you may have been taught about Indians or Africans or ancient Celts, poor people are terrible stewards of their environment. For instance, if my kid were starving to death, I would happily feed her fresh panda.”

People Ifs May Has Beens Kids Poor Environment Taught Terrible Ancient Despite Instance Poor People Starving Stewards Pandas Celts

Author:Jonah Goldberg

“We're very privileged as Americans - it's easy to forget about the rest of the world and to think that your problems are the most important problems. Even poor people in America live better than poor people most everywhere else.”

People Thinking World Important Problem America Easy Forget Poor Privileged Poor People

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“Even when uttered by Democrats, "middle class" often sounds like a mealymouthed way of saying, "Us, and not them," where "them" includes poor people, snake handlers and those with pierced tongues.”

People Way Sound Poor Class Middle Democrat Tongue Middle Class Snakes Poor People

Author:Barbara Ehrenreich

“In the Third World, there are 1.3 billion poor people. In other words, one out of every three inhabitants lives in poverty.”

People World Three Poor Poverty Thirds Billions Poor People Third World

Author:Fidel Castro

“The problem is that affirmative action could never really get at the issue of corporate power in the workplace, and so you ended up with the downsizing; you ended up with de-industrializing. You ended up with the marginalizing of working people and working poor people even while affirmative action was taking place, and a new black middle class was expanding.”

People Problem Action Black Poor Class Issues Middle Corporate Middle Class Workplace Poor People Expanding Affirmative Action Affirmative Downsizing

Author:Cornel West

“No touching... Cashmere is highly sensitive to the oil in poor people's fingers.”

People Poor Fingers Oil Sensitive Touching Poor People Cashmere

Author:Daniel Tosh

“Trickle-down economics - it didn't work. The whole idea was supply-side economics: give rich people a lot of money; they'll spend it, it'll go into the economy. Here's what we found out - rich people, really good at keeping all the money. That's how they got rich. If you want it in the economy, give it to the poor people. You know what they're really good at? Spending all their money.”

“America is such a great country, we have fat poor people.”

People Country America Poor Fats Poor People Great Country

Author:Carlos Mencia

“I was repelled by the sleazy reality of the totalitarian countries: politicians were shameless. There were corruption, pollution, shoddy goods, long lines, and suicide everywhere, but the leaders kept boasting about their great achievements and bright tomorrows. I saw all this and tried to show it in my pictures as simply and straightforwardly as I could. All I wanted to do was record how all these poor people adapted to lies and suffering, how they got used to it, how, in fact they were bound to miss it when it was over.”

“If you sell to the rich, you will become poor. If you sell to the poor, you can become rich. It is easier to get one peso from a million poor people than to get one million from one rich person.”

People Ifs Persons Poor Millions Rich Easier Sells Poor People Become Rich Rich Person

Author:John Gokongwei

“We are in the middle of a world revolution, and I don't mean Communism. The revolution I'm talking about is that of the little, poor people all over the world. They're beginning to learn what there is in life, and to learn what they are missing.”

People World Mean Littles Poor Talking Middle Missing Revolution Communism Poor People

Author:George C. Marshall

“I don't understand how poor people think.”

People Thinking Poor Poor People

Author:George W. Bush

“We live in a country [USA] where the belief is that anyone can succeed, but for so many here, and for the majority of the world, that's not the case. In many parts of the world, women and poor people are at a huge disadvantage - certain rights and protections don't exist, and they don't have the chance of upward mobility.”

People World Country Certain Belief Chance Poor Cases Rights Huge Succeed Majority Protection Usa Poor People Disadvantages Mobility Upward Mobility

Author:Joy Bryant

“When I stepped into this world, I saw that we were all burdened by a certain kind of indifference to the plight of poor people. We were burdened by an insensitivity to a legacy of racial bias. We were tolerating unfairness and unreliability in a way that burdened me and provoked me.”

People World Way Kind Certain Poor Saws This World Legacy Indifference Bias Poor People Plight Unfairness Provoked Insensitivity Unreliability Racial Bias

Author:Bryan Stevenson

“The Mayans were right, as it turns out, when they predicted the world would end in 2012. It was just a select world: the G.O.P. universe of arrogant, uptight, entitled, bossy, retrogressive white guys. [...] Instead of smallpox, plagues, drought and Conquistadors, the Republican decline will be traced to a stubborn refusal to adapt to a world where poor people and sick people and black people and brown people and female people and gay people count.”

“It isn't the rich people's fault that poor people are poor. Poor people who get an education and work hard in this country will stop being poor. That should be the goal for all poor people everywhere.”

People Should Country Hard Goal Poor Rich Hard Work Faults Poor People Rich People

Author:Ben Stein

“The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women.”

People Men Poor Views Authority Point Of View Poor People Morocco

Author:Tahar Ben Jelloun

“The United States in many ways resembles a Third World country - far more elevated, but it has many of those structural characteristics: the extreme inequality of wealth, the deterioration of infrastructure because it only serves poor people, predatory operations, huge corruption, and so on.”

“Speaking generally, I think it's useful to acknowledge explicitly the power imbalance between a journalist and the protagonists in a story about poor people, even to make that imbalance part of the story - and to redress it, narratively, where you can.”

People Thinking Stories Poor Journalist Acknowledge Poor People Protagonists Imbalance Redress

Author:William Finnegan

“Dr. King organized the Poor People's Campaign in 1968 to shut down Washington, D.C. and force legislators to tackle poverty. His efforts to shift focus from civil to silver rights were interrupted by his untimely death. He fought ardently for Black rights, but he also recognized financial literacy as the key to an America that was truly free for all people.”

“Do more and understand that all wealth came from poor people either as the entrepreneurs or the consumers who buy the product that keeps the entrepreneurs in business.”

People Wealth Poor Products Entrepreneur Consumers Poor People

Author:John Hope Bryant

“The truth is, the vast majority of medical care for lower income people in America is shitty. If you go to a free clinic to receive any form of care, the majority of those will be overcrowded with nurses who are tired because they have to work with so many people. We are not a country that invests public money into taking care of poor people, so we usually rely on clinics with very overburdened and underpaid staff.”

People Ifs Country Care America Form Poor Truth Is Majority Tired Medical Income Rely Nurse Staff Poor People Clinic Medical Care Underpaid Public Money

Author:Molly Crabapple

“People say to me all the time that I threw some money into some guy's coffee cup [by accident, thinking they were poor]. People do make the same sort of mistake. I've made attempts to volunteer that have been calamitous!”

People Thinking Has Beens Made Guy Poor Mistake Accidents Coffee Cups Volunteer Poor People Coffee Cup

Author:Nicole Holofcener

“The problem is not just affirmative action, though. The problem is poor people, working people and their children, and affirmative action for the most part doesn't even apply to them.”

People Children Problem Action Poor Poor People Affirmative Action Affirmative

Author:Cornel West

“We've got the wrong vision, the wrong values, the wrong priority, and as the great prophetic figure Marian Edelman Wright puts it, we have been AWOL when it comes to poor people and poor children.”

People Children Has Beens Values Poor Vision Figures Priorities Poor People Prophetic Poor Children

Author:Cornel West

“In southern Italy, where my grandparents had lived, there were few opportunities. The society was static, with rigid social classes. Poor people, like my grandparents, had little chance to improve their lives, no matter their talents or willingness to work.”

People Littles Matter Opportunity Social Chance Poor Class Talent Willingness Southern Grandparent Poor People Static Social Class Southern Italy

Author:Samuel Alito

“Wealthy people are just as patriotic as poor people, I honest to God believe that.”

People Believe Poor Honest Wealthy Patriotic Poor People

Author:Joe Biden

“I am somewhat influenced by the years that I've spent trying to actually get things done, whether it was reforming education in Arkansas or a survey and Legal Services Corporation board when President [Jimmy ]Carter appointed me and trying to get lawyers for poor people. I have worked in these areas. I know it's more than just a hope. You've got to translate it into a policy that leads to action.”

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Author:Hillary Clinton

“I think that it's not enough to do the little Band-Aid things of having celebrities come and read to children. Not that we don't need to read to children, but we don't need to just do it one time and feel good about it. I think we need to think long range about poor people and their relationship to libraries.”

People Thinking Needs Feels Children Littles Long Enough Poor Band Library Aids Feel Good Range One Time Poor People Just Do It Band Aid

Author:Sandra Cisneros

“I was reading Emily Dickinson and Edwin Arlington Robinson, but these weren't the poets that influenced me. I think Gwendolyn Brooks influenced me because she wrote about Chicago, and she wrote about poor people. And she influenced me in my life by giving me a blurb. I would see her in action, and she listened to every single person. She didn't say, "Oh, I'm tired. I gotta go." She was there, and present, with every single person. She's one of the great teachers.”

People Thinking Giving Persons Action Reading Poor Teacher Poet Tired Chicago Poor People Brooks I'm Tired Great Teacher Single Person Emily Arlington

Author:Sandra Cisneros

“One of the reasons inequality gets so deep in this country is that everyone wants to be rich. That's the American ideal. Poor people don't like talking about poverty because even though they might live in the projects surrounded by other poor people and have, like, ten dollars in the bank, they don't like to think of themselves as poor.”

People Thinking Want Country Reason Might Poor Talking Poverty Rich Ten Projects Ideals Dollars Inequality Poor People

Author:Jay-Z

“No matter who you are, if you have a $30 operating loss, you can carry it forward to the next year. And poor people do take advantage of that, also.”

People Ifs Years Matter Next Loss Poor Advantage Who You Are Poor People Next Year

Author:Rudy Giuliani

“[Donald] Trump is taking America's dirty laundry to the center stage. Everything he does, the rest of the country already does really well: victimize immigrants, poor people, women.”

People Wells Doe Country America Poor Stage Trump Dirty Immigrants Poor People Laundry Center Stage Dirty Laundry

Author:Junot Diaz

“I used to be called the "Green Jack Kemp" because of my promotion of entrepreneurial and work-based solutions for poor people.”

People Used Poor Solutions Green Used To Be Poor People Promotion Entrepreneurial

Author:Van Jones

“[Donald Trump] said it`s against affordable health care for poor people and will not fight to raise wages for working poor people, that`s pushing all of them in terms of policy.”

People Said Care Fighting Term Poor Policy Trump Raises Health Care Pushing Wages Poor People Affordable Affordable Health Care

Author:Jesse Jackson

“Do you know that, until recently, poor people brought children into the world for the sole purpose of making use of them? But how can you change, by force or all of a sudden, an age-old habit? The only way is to plan births, by one means or another.”

People Knows World Way Mean Children Use Age Purpose Force Poor Plans Birth Habit Do You Know Sole Poor People Old Habits

Author:Indira Gandhi

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