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Source: Course of popular lectures as delivered by Frances Wright: with three addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789. Second edition

“It is not true that there is dignity in all work. Some jobs are definitely better than others.... People who have good jobs are happy, rich, and well dressed. People who have bad jobs are unhappy, poor and use meat extenders. Those who seek dignity in the type of work that compels them to help hamburgers are certain to be disappointed.”

People Wells Helping Use Jobs Certain Poor Rich Type Dignity Unhappy Meat Disappointed Good Job Hamburgers Using Me Well Dressed Bad Jobs

Book:The Fran Lebowitz Reader

Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“All lives have equal value. And so you say, 'why do poor children die when other children don't? Why do some people have enough nutrition or reasonable toilets and other people don't?' So those basic needs that, through innovation, actually it's very affordable to bring them...to everyone.”

“They have their belief, these poor Tibet people, that Providence sends down always an Incarnation of Himself into every generation. At bottom some belief in a kind of Pope! At bottom still better, a belief that there is a Greatest Man; that he is discoverable; that, once discovered, we ought to treat him with an obedience which knows no bounds. This is the truth of Grand Lamaism; the "discoverability" is the only error here.”

People Knows Men Kind Stills Belief Poor Generations Buddhism Ought Treats Errors Bottom Bounds Obedience Providence Pope Incarnation Tibet Greatest Man

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“Poor people make a very poor business of it when they try to seem rich.”

People Trying Seems Wealth Poor Rich Deception Poor People

Book:Redburn's First Voyage: Works of Melville

Source: Redburn's First Voyage: Works of Melville

“Ancient worship . . . does truth. All one has to do is to study the ancient liturgies to see that liturgies clearly do truth by their order and in their substance. This is why so many young people today are now adding ancient elements to their worship. . . . This recovery of ancient practices is not the mere restoration of ritual but a deep, profound, and passionate engagement with truth—truth that forms and shapes the spiritual life into a Christlikeness that issues forth in the call to a godly and holy life and into a deep commitment to justice and to the needs of the poor.”

“What if all the forces of society were bent upon developing [poor] children? What if society's business were making people insteadof profits? How much of their creative beauty of spirit would remain unquenched through the years? How much of this responsiveness would follow them through life?”

People Ifs Years Children Spirit Force Poor Creative Profit Developing Welfare What If Bent Through The Years Social Welfare Responsiveness Poor Children

Author:Mary Heaton Vorse

“It is an absolute impossibility in this society to reversely sexually objectify heterosexual men, just as it is impossible for a poor person of color to be a racist. Such extreme prejudice must be accompanied by the power of society's approval and legislation. While women and poor people of color may become intolerant, personally abusive, even hateful, they do not have enough power to be racist or sexist.”

Source: Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma

“I want to celebrate these elms which have been spared by the plague, these survivors of a once flourishing tribe commemorated by all the Elm Streets in America. But to celebrate them is to be silent about the people who sit and sleep underneath them, the homeless poor who are hauled away by the city like trash, except it has no place to dump them. To speak of one thing is to suppress another.”

People Want Has Beens America Speak Sleep Poor Cities One Thing Streets Silent Celebrate Survivor Homeless Tribes Trash Plague Dump Flourishing

Author:Lisel Mueller

“Poor people have the blues because they're poor and hungry. Rich people can't sleep at night because they're trying to hold on to their money and everything they have.”

People Trying Night Sleep Poor Rich Hungry Poor People Rich People Can't Sleep

Author:John Lee Hooker

“The poor have no business with culture and should beware of it. They cannot eat it; they cannot sell it; they can only pass it on to others and that is why the world is full of hungry people ready to teach us anything under the sun.”

People World Should Culture Poor Teach Sun Ready Sells Hungry

Author:Aubrey Menen

“If we love (the poor) people, we want to identify with them and share with them.”

People Ifs Want Poor Share Poor People Material Wealth

Author:Jean Vanier

“people who pay greater respect to a wealthy villain than to an honest, upright man in poverty, almost deserve to be enslaved; they plainly show that wealth, however it may be acquired, is, in their esteem, to be preferred to virtue.”

“Art is the closest you can get to immortality, though it's a poor substitute - you're working for people not yet born - and people want it because it is brilliant. It ends up in museums anyway; the rich have to give it back to the people, it's their only option. There are no pockets in a shroud.”

People Want Giving Art Ends Born Poor Rich Art Is Brilliant Immortality Pockets Substitutes Museums Closest Shrouds

Author:Damien Hirst

“Most poor people earn more than minimum wage when they are working; their problem is not low wages. The problem comes when they are not working.”

People Problem Poor Lows Minimum Wages Poor People Minimum Wage

Author:Joseph Stiglitz

“The Buddha also counseled the monks and nuns to avoid wasting any precious time by engaging in idle conversation, oversleeping, pursuing fame and recognition, chasing after desires, spending time with people of poor character, and being satisfied with only a shallow understanding of the teaching.”

People Character Desire Understanding Poor Teaching Fame Conversation Spending Satisfied Recognition Idle Shallow Engaging Chasing Monk Nun Spending Time Precious Time Poor Character

Author:Nhat Hanh

“Dependency arguments often come from elites - either aid agencies or governments - and say something about attitudes to poor people.”

People Government Poor Attitude Argument Aids Agency Elites Poor People Dependency Harvey

Author:Paul Harvey

“The general systems of money management today require people to pretend to do something they can't do and like something they don't. It's a funny business because on a net basis, the whole investment management business together gives no value added to all buyers combined. That's the way it has to work. Mutual funds charge two percent per year and then brokers switch people between funds, costing another three to four percentage points. The poor guy in the general public is getting a terrible product from the professionals.”

“Suppose you were a real estate investor with a 1/3 interest in the best apartment complex in town, the best mall, and the best office building. Would you feel like a poor, undiversified investor? No! But as soon as you get into stocks, people feel this way. Partly, people need to justify their fees.”

People Way Needs Feels Real Interest Poor Building Office Towns Complexes Investing Justify Investors Apartment Estates Malls Fees Office Buildings

Author:Charlie Munger

“What you must understand is oppression does not end with the niggers. It does not end with the poor people, it doesn't end with the women, or the pregnant women. It goes on up the line to the executive who has his bag searched in the airport.”

People Doe Ends Lines Poor Goes On Oppression Bags Executives Pregnant Poor People Airports Pregnant Women

Author:Florynce Kennedy

“People who go broke in a big way never miss any meals. It is the poor jerk who is shy a half slug who must tighten his belt.”

People Way Bigs Poor Half Missing Broke Meals Shy Belts Jerk Slugs

Book:Time Enough for Love

Source: Time Enough for Love

“All the historians are Harvard people. It just isn't fair. Poor old Hoover from West Branch, Iowa, had no chance with that crowd;nor did Andrew Jackson from Tennessee. Nor does Lyndon Johnson from Stonewall, Texas. It just isn't fair.”

People Doe Chance Poor History Fairs West Crowds Branches Texas Historian Johnson Scholarship Harvard Andrew Iowa Tennessee Hoover

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“Falling in love is very real, but I used to shake my head when people talked about soul mates, poor deluded individuals grasping at some supernatural ideal not intended for mortals but sounded pretty in a poetry book. Then, we met, and everything changed, the cynic has become the converted, the sceptic, an ardent zealot.”

“Pride can go without domestics, without fine clothes, can live in a house with two rooms, can eat potato, purslain, beans, lyed corn, can work on the soil, can travel afoot, can talk with poor men, or sit silent well contented with fine saloons. But vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last; a long way leading nowhere.--Only one drawback; proud people are intolerably selfish, and the vain are gentle and giving.”

Source: Nature - Conduct of Life

“In Sumter and other counties [in South Carolina] the whites are resorting to intimidation and violence to prevent the colored people from organizing for the elections. The division there is still on the color line. Substantially all the whites are Democrats and all the colored people are Republicans. There is no political principle in dispute between them. The whites have the intelligence, the property, and the courage which make power. The negroes are for the most part ignorant, poor, and timid. My view is that the whites must be divided there before a better state of things will prevail.”

“If we wanted a program to help the majority of the population, we'd offer loan guarantees to help poor people get access to reliable cars so that they could have a better shot at getting - and keeping - a well-paying job...A small amount of capital could make a much bigger difference in their lives than extra student loan relief for middle-class college kids would.”

“Congress is thinking about eliminating a federal program under which scientists broadcast signals to Alien beings. This would be a large mistake. Alien beings have atomic blaster death cannons. You cannot cut off their federal programs as if they were merely poor people.”

People Ifs Thinking Would Be Poor Mistake Cutting Program Scientist Congress Aliens Signals Poor People Eliminating Cannons

Author:Dave Barry

“I've always rebelled a little when people say, 'My Jewish values lead me to really care about the poor.' I know some Christians who care about the poor, too.”

People Knows Littles Care Christian Values Poor Who Cares Leading Me Jewish Values

Author:William Kristol

“Get a millionaire mentor. Most of us were brought up middle class or poor and then hold ourselves to the limits and ideas of that group. I have been studying millionaires to duplicate what they did. Get your own personal millionaire mentor and study them. Most rich people are extremely generous with their knowledge and their resources.”

People Has Beens Ideas Poor Class Study Rich Groups Middle Limits Resources Generous Middle Class Mentor Millionaire Rich People Duplicate

Author:Grant Cardone

“What used to be racial segregation now mirrors itself in class segregation, this great sorting (has) taken place. It creates its own politics. There are some communities where not only do I not know poor people, I don't even know people who have trouble paying the bills at the end of the month. I just don't know those people. And so there's less sense of investment in those children.”

People Knows Children Ends Used Politics Community Poor Class Taken Trouble Months Mirrors Bills Investment Used To Be Poor People Segregation Sorting Racial Segregation

Author:Barack Obama

“People are experience-rich and theory-poor. I help people organize / make sense of their experiences.”

People Helping Poor Rich Theory Make Sense Organize

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“Yes, the South-becoming always poorer-and the North-becoming always richer ...Richer, too in the resources of weapons with which the superpowers and blocs can mutually threaten each other. In the light of Christ's words (Mt. 25), this poor South will judge the rich North. And the poor people and poor nations-poor in different ways, not only lacking food, but also deprived of freedom and other human right-will judge those people who take these goods away from them, amassing to themselves the imperialist monopoly and political supremacy at the expense of others.”

“Look how the world's poor people are amazed at apparitions, signs and prodigies!”

People World Looks Poor Amazed Poor People Prodigies Apparitions

Book:The works of William Shakespeare

Source: The works of William Shakespeare

“I used to do volunteer work in poor areas of Cairo, and people would gather their money together to get a satellite dish. You'd see them huddling around and for the first time seeing issues being debated on TV that had never been talked about before. And that is the biggest promoter of democracy you could possibly have.”

People Firsts Together Used Poor Democracy Issues Seeing Tvs First Time Areas Dishes Volunteer Satellites Promoters Cairo Volunteer Work

Author:Jehane Noujaim

“Technologies, including cell phones, have the potential to help millions of poor people out of poverty by enabling access to a range of safe, affordable financial services - most importantly, savings accounts - that have long been out of reach.”

“If you look at the world's top 50 drugs being sold today, they are being marketed and sold by companies that did not invent them. I respect patents. I'll pay a royalty. But I shouldn't be denied the right to produce drugs for poor people at reasonable prices.”

People Ifs World Looks Today Poor Pay Company Produce Drug Reasonable Denied Poor People Royalty Patents

Author:Yusuf Hamied

“Both of my parents were born into poor families on the island of Cuba. They came to America because it was the only place where people like them could have a chance.My father was a bartender. And the journey from the back of that bar to the [election 2016], to me, that is the essence of the American dream.”

People Dream America Father Parent Born Chance Poor Journey Essence Election Bars Islands American Dream Cuba Bartender Poor Family

Author:Marco Rubio

“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.”

People Long Suffering Humanity Poor Knowing Empathy Complexes Honestly Poor People

Author:Michael Eric Dyson

“But for poor black people and working-class black people, it is a much more difficult way to go. The over-incarceration of black people is just intolerable. When you look at the disparity in terms of education and access to fair schooling, it is horrible. If this would happen to white people in this country, it would not be tolerated.”

People Ifs Way Looks Country Happens Difficult Black Term White Poor Class Fairs Access Horrible Black People Working Class Schooling Disparity Incarceration

Author:Michael Eric Dyson

“I recognize now that the conditions that Indians are living in are the conditions that poor people everywhere are living in.”

People Poor Conditions Poor People

Author:Sherman Alexie

“When a person is in a miserable situation, then, yes, it is difficult to develop genuine compassion toward others. That's why I find it difficult to say to poor people, "Please have compassion toward millionaires." That's not easy.”

People Persons Easy Difficult Poor Compassion Situation Please Genuine Miserable Poor People Millionaire

Author:Dalai Lama

“Some people say that the West has a cruel history. These people also may see the achievements of Western countries - in terms of the economy, education, health, and social achievements - as a result of exploitation of poorer countries, including Arab countries. Western nations get rich by using resources such as Arab oil. Meanwhile, the countries supplying them raw materials remain poor. Due to such injustices, jealousies are created.”

“Too often, systems of oppression turn those who are the targets of the oppression against one another. It's happened in the USA between white working class and poor folks on the one hand, and people of color on the other.”

People Hands Turns White Poor Class Happened Color Folks Oppression Usa Target Working Class

Author:Tim Tebow

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