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“So long as the great majority of the poor in any country are inert and are laboring without any hope in this world, the whole associated life of that community rests on an equivocal foundation. Its moral and social order is tied to an economic system which starves and mutilates the great majority of the population, and under such conditions its religion necessarily becomes a spiritual drug, administered for the purpose of subduing the popular discontent and relieving the popular misery.”

“24.9 percent of American children live in poverty, while the proportions in Germany, France and Italy are 8.6, 7.4 and 10.5 percent. And once born on the wrong side of the tracks, Americans are more likely to stay there than their counterparts in Europe. Those born to better-off families are more likely to stay better off. America is developing an aristocracy of the rich and a serfdom of the poor - the inevitable result of a twenty-year erosion of its social contract.”

“My Day Clothes are almost worne out...send the poor printer a few gammons, or some meal, some butter, cheese, poultry, etc.”

Poor Clothes Meals Etc Cheese Printer Poultry

Author:John Peter Zenger

“Partner with churches to assist the poor.”

Church Poor Partners

Author:Jim DeMint

“I was born a poor black child.”

Children Black Born Poor Jerk Comedy Movie Black Movie

Author:Al Gore

“If children really want to learn something, and have the opportunity to learn it in use, they do so even if the teaching is poor. For example many learn difficult video games with no professional teaching at all!”

Ifs Want Children Use Opportunity Games Difficult Poor Teaching Example Video Opportunities To Learn

Author:Seymour Papert

“Community is woven from gifts, which is ultimately why poor people often have stronger communities than rich people. If you are financially independent, then you really don't depend on your neighbors for anything. You can just pay someone to do it.”

People Ifs Community Poor Pay Rich Depends Stronger Independent Neighbor Poor People Rich People Woven

Author:Charles Eisenstein

“We must observe also, that among the heathen the names of poor men are more likely to be known than of rich. Now our Lord mentions the name of the poor, but not the name of the rich, because God knows and approves the humble, but not the proud.”

Knows Men Names Poor Known Lord Rich Proud Humble God Knows Our Lord Poor Man Heathen

Author:Pope Gregory I

“Whatsoever then you have well in this world, when you recollect to have done any thing good, be very fearful about it, lest the prosperity granted you be your recompense for the same good. And when you behold poor men doing any thing blameably, fear not, seeing that perhaps those whom the remains of the slightest iniquity defiles, the fire of honesty cleanses.”

Men World Wells Done Poor Fire Seeing Honesty This World Remains Prosperity Granted Fearful Fear Not Poor Man Iniquity Recompense

Author:Pope Gregory I

“I cannot be alone in being pretty nauseated by Red Nose Day, or at least its television manifestation. Do I think that wretchedly poor children in Africa should get food and life-saving drugs? Of course. Do I want to be hectored into contributing by celebrities who earn more in a 10-minute slot than many of these families get in a year? Nope.”

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Author:Simon Hoggart

“Poor Harper Seven Beckham, having to live with that name all her life. It's the Boy Named Sue syndrome; at the very least it will toughen her up.”

Names Poor Boys Seven Syndromes Harper Beckham

Author:Simon Hoggart

“I've been dealing with pressure all life long. Coming from a very poor family in Haiti, moving to Paris, a new place, a new culture, a new language. I used that pressure to adapt, to do better than everyone else, and I moved around quite a bit as well.”

Wells Long Moving Used Culture Language Bits Poor Pressure Moved Paris Long Life Haiti New Places Poor Family New Cultures

Author:Jimmy Jean-Louis

“If the players aren't getting paid, there's something terribly, terribly wrong, and that's true only in the United States. Everywhere else, where money is involved with sport, the players get paid. But these poor kids in college, they're doing it for free, and that's just disgraceful.”

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Author:Frank Deford

“You take the huge income that comes with a big gas tax, and you use it to pay off regressive taxes like the FICA [Federal Insurance Contributions Act] tax. You can help the poor in other ways besides giving them cheap gas. You want to send the message that people want to be as efficient as possible using gasoline until we can transition away from that need entirely.”

People Way Want Needs Giving Helping Use Bigs Poor Pay Huge Taxes Messages Income Contribution Gas Transition Efficient Gasoline Help The Poor

Author:Paul R. Ehrlich

“Muqtada leads the only real mass movement in Iraq. It's a mass movement of the Shia, who are 60 percent of the population, and of poor Shia - and most Shia are poor. Otherwise the place is full of sort of self-declared leaders, many of whom spend most of their time outside Iraq.”

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Author:Patrick Cockburn

“Muqtada is radical in the sense that he wants the U.S. occupation to end and has always said so from the beginning. Secondly, his support among the Shia really runs along class lines; it's mainly the poor who support him. His organization runs an enormous social network.”

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Author:Patrick Cockburn

“In the bible homosexuality is condemned, but along with divorce and greed and callousness toward poor people. So its elevation to a highest priority among some religious groups has been very disturbing to me.”

People Has Beens Religious Poor Groups Highest Greed Divorce Priorities Homosexuality Poor People Disturbing Elevation Callousness

Author:Jimmy Carter

“I firmly believe that the inequity [in society] is enormous. The people have the feeling that you are allowed to do anything if you are rich. But if you're poor, you have to pay. We [Europeans] have to counter this.”

People Ifs Believe Feelings Poor Pay Rich Enormous

Author:Martin Schulz

“One of the challenges of educating especially poor people of any color on conservation and environmental issues is that poor people have a list of priorities that are more immediate quality of life issues.”

People Challenges Poor Quality Issues Color Environmental Lists Priorities Conservation Poor People Quality Of Life Environmental Issues

Author:Jerome Ringo

“The main difference lies in wage levels, which is because our workers are not yet as well trained as in other countries. We are a poor country. This is why we must accept the conditions that prevail in international markets. But our trade unions do represent the rights of workers.”

Wells Country Lying Differences Poor Levels Accepting Rights Conditions Trade Unions Workers International Other Countries Poor Countries Trade Unions

Author:Nguyen Minh Triet

“I am a great supporter of bionics and this diversity in nature, this genetic diversity, is not available for free. We, as industrialized nations, have already sinned enough, and we have significantly reduced biodiversity in our countries. But now we expect the poor, less developed countries of the world to preserve their rainforests, mangrove forests and coral landscapes for us at no charge.”

World Country Enough Nations Poor Diversity Available Forests Our Country Landscape Preserves Supporter Biodiversity Rainforest Developed Country Countries Of The World Bionics

Author:Klaus Topfer

“When someone brutally kills someone else, we call him "animalistic." But we consider ourselves "human" when we give to the poor.”

Giving Humans Poor Animalistic

Author:Frans de Waal

“Now as I look around, it's mighty plain to see, This world is such a great and a funny place to be. Oh, the gamblin' man is rich, an' the workin' man is poor, And I ain't got no home in this world anymore.”

Men World Looks Home Poor Rich This World

Author:Woody Guthrie

“Better be unromantic than thoroughly used and still poor.”

Stills Used Poor

Book:The Luckiest Lady in London

Source: The Luckiest Lady in London

“If you want to help the poor, don't be poor”

Ifs Want Helping Poor Help The Poor

Book:The Wealth Chef: Recipes to Make Your Money Work Hard, So You Don't Have To

Source: The Wealth Chef: Recipes to Make Your Money Work Hard, So You Don't Have To

“We got to face some facts. That the masses are poor, that the masses belong to what you call the lower class, and when I talk about the masses, I'm talking about the white masses, I'm talking about the black masses, and the brown masses, and the yellow masses, too. We've got to face the fact that some people say you fight fire best with fire, but we say you put fire out best with water. We say you don't fight racism with racism. We're gonna fight racism with solidarity. We say you don't fight capitalism with no black capitalism; you fight capitalism with socialism.”

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Author:Fred Hampton

“We are living in an historic moment. We are each called to take part in a great transformation. Our survival as a species is threatened by global warming, economic meltdown, and an ever-increasing gap between rich and poor. Yet these threats offer an opportunity to awaken as an interconnected and beloved community.”

“A good intention, with a bad approach, often leads to a poor result.”

Poor Results Approach Intention Good Intentions

Author:Thomas A. Edison

“I was fairly poor but most of my money went for wine and classical music. I loved to mix the two together.”

Two Together Poor Wine Classical Music

Author:Charles Bukowski

“Poverty is abandonment. We have abandoned the poor.”

Poor Poverty Abandoned Abandonment

Author:Tony Meloto

“When we give help to the poor, we are not doing the work of aid agencies 'in a Christian way'. Those are good, it is a decent thing to do - aid work is good and quite human - but it is not Christian poverty, which St. Paul desires of us and preaches to us. Christian poverty is that I give of my own, and not of that which is left over - I give even that, which I need for myself, to the poor person, because I know that he enriches me. Why does the poor person enrich me? Because Jesus Himself told us that He is in the poor person.”

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Author:Pope Francis

“In Mexico, a poor country, higher education is of quite good quality -- and is free. Ten years ago the government tried to impose small fees. There was a national student strike and the government backed down. High tuition is not an economic necessity, as is easy to show, but a debt trap is a good technique of indoctrination and control. And resisting this makes good sense.”

“I said I didn't think it would be a collectivist state so much as a wilderness in which most people lived hand to mouth, and the rich would live like princes - better than the rich had ever lived, except that their lives would constantly be in danger from the hungry predatory poor. All the technology would serve the rich, but they would need it for their own protection and to assure their continued prosperity.”

People Thinking Needs Said States Hands Would Be Poor Technology Rich Danger Mouths Prosperity Protection Hungry Wilderness Predatory

Book:To the Ends of the Earth: The Selected Travels of Paul Theroux

Source: To the Ends of the Earth: The Selected Travels of Paul Theroux

“Never bring a lot of money to where a poor man lives. He can only lose what little he has. On the other hand it is mathematically possible that he might win whatever you bring with you. What you must do, with money and the poor, is never let them get too close to one another.”

Men Littles Hands Might Winning Loses Poor Lots Of Money Poor Man

Author:Charles Bukowski

“Far as I know, Legal Aid was invented to help poor people fight wrongs; [the criminals] are abusing the system, and the damned lawyers help them do it. They're all sticking two fingers up at them who pay their taxes. And I'll tell you sommat for free, Sir George, them who pays the taxes are eventually going to get fed up of it.”

People Knows Two Helping Fighting Poor Pay Taxes Fingers Aids Criminals Lawyer Feds Poor People Fed Up Help The Poor Help Poor People

Author:Andrew Barrett

“Polak, a psychiatrist, has applied a behavioral and anthropological approach to alleviating poverty, developed by studying people in their natural surroundings. He argues that there are three mythic solutions to poverty eradication: donations, national economic growth, and big businesses. Instead, he advocates helping the poor earn money through their own efforts of developing low-cost tools that are effective and profitable.”

“When I moved to Los Angeles, I wrote spec screenplays. I was really poor, and I thought I was just gonna do this for a while to make a little money so I could write novels. I thought movies were a second-class art form. I condescended to it - I didn't know enough to know it was really gonna be hard.”

Knows Writing Littles Art Hard Enough Form Poor Class Novel Moved Los Angeles Screenplays Little Money Specs

Author:Stephen Gaghan

“Crime is for poor people. You don't need to rob the bank if you own it.”

People Ifs Needs Poor Crime Poor People

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

“Show mercy. No soul ever was made poor by loving too much, or injured by forgiving too often.”

Made Soul Shows Poor Too Much Mercy Forgiving Show Me Injured

Author:Catherine Bramwell-Booth

“My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much so, that he never could be persuaded to keep slaves, for he pitied them so much: and a slave belonging to one of his brothers being once in his house, was treated by him with as much tenderness as his own children.”

Men Children Father House Poor Compassion Brother Sick Slave Charity Treated Servant Belonging Tenderness

Book:The life of Saint Teresa of Jesus

Source: The life of Saint Teresa of Jesus

“I came up poor. My mother only had a fourth-grade education. My dad didn't have any education at all. But they were very structured. They worked hard. You know, they didn't complain. They didn't murmur. And they believe in the Christ.”

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Author:Evander Holyfield

“As a culture, we've become upset by the tobacco companies advertising to children, but we sit idly by while the food companies do the very same thing. And we could make a claim that the toll taken on the public health by a poor diet rivals that taken by tobacco.”

Children Culture Poor Company Taken Claims Advertising Upset Diets Rivals Tobacco Public Health Tolls

Book:Salt, Sugar, Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us

Source: Salt, Sugar, Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us

“Who is affected more when it's cold? Poor people. Who is affected more when it's hot? Poor people. Who is affected more when it's wet? Poor people. Who is most affected when the economy is bad? Poor people. Poor people are the most fragile.”

People Poor Economy Cold Hot Affected Fragile Wet Poor People

Author:Russel Honore

“I spend time with people who are movers and shakers, and others who are just friends I really care for. Some of them are rich, some of them are poor. I couldn't care less. I'm not a snob.”

People Care Poor Rich End Times Spend Time Snob Shakers Just Friends Movers And Shakers

Author:Aby Rosen

“My mom was born poor, raised poor, and was going to die poor.”

Dies Born Poor Mom Raised My Mom

Author:Kenny Troutt

“The rich did not care who ruled, as long as they were allowed to be rich. The poor could not afford to care and nobody asked their opinion in any case. Only the middle class mattered and any half-witted ruler knows how to pamper them.”

Knows Long Care Poor Half Opinion Class Cases Know How Rich Middle Middle Class Rulers

Book:ASURA: Tale of the Vanquished

Source: ASURA: Tale of the Vanquished

“At Harvard, the strong and savvy and confident thrived, while the nice or shy or quaintly moral were just bit players. In Ysleta, you believed in God because you were poor and needed something to hold on to. At Harvard, you believed in your good luck or bad luck, in all-nighters, in your political savvy.”

Political Strong Bits Poor Moral Nice Player Needed Luck Shy Good Luck Harvard Bad Luck Savvy All Nighters

Book:From This Wicked Patch of Dust

Source: From This Wicked Patch of Dust

“Victorian values meant brutalizing people who were often poor.”

People Values Poor Victorian

Author:Charles Palliser

“Well, you can do whatever you want, but just don’t call it inequality. Put the word poverty there. Because we have many rich people on our board, and when they see the word poverty that makes them feel good, because [it means] they’re really nice people who care about the poor. When they see the word inequality it makes them upset, because [it means] you want to take money from them.”

People Mean Care Poor Poverty Rich Nice Feel Good Inequality Upset Rich People Really Nice Nice People

Author:Branko Milanovic

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