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“Human experience, which is constantly contradicting theory, is the great test of truth. A system, built upon the discoveries of a great many minds, is always of more strength, than what is produced by the mere workings of any one mind, which, of itself, can do very little. There is not so poor a book in the world that would not be a prodigious effort were it wrought out entirely by a single mind, without the aid of prior investigators.”

Source: Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales

“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.”

People Ifs World Kind May Hands Christian Asks Imagination Poor Hell Atheism Reader Terrible Devil Injustice Positive Atheism Cruelty New World Poor People Beggar Masquerade

Author:Bartolome de las Casas

“"She (Minnie Ruth Solomon) was unusual because even though I knew her family was as poor as ours, nothing she said or did seemed touched by that. Or by prejudice. Or by anything the world said or did. It was as if she had something inside her that somehow made all that not count. I fell in love with her some the first time we ever talked, and a little bit more every time after that until I thought I couldn't love her more than I did. And when I felt that way, I asked her to marry me . . . and she said she would."”

Ifs World Way Firsts Littles Made Said Felt Bits Sports Poor Little Bit First Time Prejudice Athlete Touched Unusual Marry Me Ruth Solomon Minnie

Author:Jesse Owens

“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.”

People World Whole Might Mother Poor Rich Whole World Symbols Poor People Rich People Cannibalism

Author:Tupac Shakur

“If you don't keep the eyes of your heart focused on the paradise that is to come, you will try to turn this poor fallen world into the paradise it will never be.”

Ifs World Trying Heart Eye Turns Poor Focused Fallen Paradise Fallen World

Author:Paul David Tripp

“Developed countries will always welcome the Einsteins of this world - those individuals whose talents are already recognized and deemed to have value. This welcome doesn't usually extend to the poor and uneducated people seeking to enter the country. But the truth, supported by the facts of history and the richness of immigrant contribution to America's distinction in the world, is that the most entrepreneurial, innovative, motivated citizen is the one who has been given an opportunity and wants to repay the debt.”

“God, we are told, looked upon the world after he had created it and pronounced it good; but ascetic pietists, in their wisdom, cast their eyes over it, and substantially pronounce it a dead failure, a miserable production, a poor concern.”

World Eye Poor Concern Casts Productions Miserable Over It

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“Alas! we know that ideals can never be completely embodied in practice. Ideals must ever lie a great way off--and we will thankfully content ourselves with any not intolerable approximation thereto! Let no man, as Schiller says, too querulously "measure by a scale of perfection the meager product of reality" in this poor world of ours.”

Knows Men World Way Reality Lying Poor Practice Products Ideals Perfection Scales Alas Approximation

Book:On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History

Source: On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History

“The man who goes through life with an uncertain doctrine not knowing what he believes, what a poor, powerless creature he is! He goes around through the world as a man goes down through the street with a poor, wounded arm, forever dodging people be meets on the street for fear they may touch him.”

People Men World Believe May Belief Poor Forever Knowing Streets He Man Arms Creatures Doctrine Not Knowing Uncertain Wounded Powerless

Author:Phillips Brooks

“The first time I received an award, I was very surprised. I did not know whether to accept it or not. But I came to the conclusion that I should accept awards in the name of the poorest poor, as a form of homage to them. I think that basically, when awards are given to me, the existence of the poor in the world is being recognized.”

Thinking Knows World Should Firsts Form Names Given Poor Existence Accepting Poverty First Time Conclusion Awards Poorest Homage

Author:Mother Teresa

“Is there no Villain in this World who doth not regard himself as a poor abus'd Innocent, no She-Wolf who doth not think herself a Lamb, no Shark who doth not fancy that she is a Goldfish?”

Thinking World Poor This World Regard Innocent Fancy Villain Lambs Sharks Goldfish

Book:Fanny

Source: Fanny

“Dear Lord, our God and Saviour! for Thy gifts The world were poor in thanks, though every soul Were to do nought but breathe them, every blade Of grass, and every atomie of earth To utter it like dew.”

World Soul God Earth Poor Lord Dear Breathe Thanks Grass Blades Dew Saviour Blades Of Grass Dear Lord

Book:Festus: a poem

Source: Festus: a poem

“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.”

People World Pain Causes Poor Existence Rich Strange Poor People Rich People Rich And Poor Strange Things Very Sad

Author:Evita Peron

“the wealthy white western minority of the world could not hope to prosper if most of the rest of mankind were foundering in hopeless poverty. Islands of plenty in a vast ocean of misery never have been a good recipe for commercial success.”

Ifs World Has Beens White Poor Poverty Rich Mankind Ocean Misery Western Plenty Islands Minorities Hopeless Wealthy Recipes Rich And Poor Vast Ocean

Author:Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

“The world's fat is badly divided.”

World Poor Rich Fats Divided Rich And Poor

Book:The View From The Ground

Source: The View From The Ground

“Money is everything in this world to some people, and more than the next to other poor souls.”

People World Soul Next Poor Money This World

Book:Beulah

Source: Beulah

“Today the great gift of God's Creation is exposed to serious dangers and lifestyles which can degrade it. Environmental pollution is making particularly unsustainable the lives of the poor of the world ... we must pledge ourselves to take care of creation and to share its resources in solidarity.”

“The unequal distribution of food is one of the world's most tragic facts. Millions of people die because they have too little to eat, and many die because they have too much.”

People World Littles Facts Dies Poor Millions Rich Too Much Hunger Tragic Distribution Rich And Poor

Author:Laura Huxley

“The most poor and backward areas in the world are those in which women are subjugated and exploited. Improving the situation of the woman improves the family, the community, and by extension the whole country.”

World Country Whole Community Poor Situation Areas Improving Extensions

Author:Isabel Allende

“Love! The poor word. How it has suffered up and down the streets of the world.”

World Poor Streets Up And Down

Book:Her Soul and Her Body

Source: Her Soul and Her Body

“All the great Shakespeare plays are about killing. Alas, poor Yorick, that's about death. And in Romeo and Juliet everyone up ends up dying. The greatest dramas in the world are all about sex, violence and death.”

World Ends Play Sex Poor Violence Dying Drama Killing Alas Juliet Shakespeare Play

Author:Ray Winstone

“The best imitation in the world is not half as good as a poor original.”

World Poor Half Originals Imitation

Author:Luise Rainer

“Christmas turns things tail-end foremost. The day and the spirit of Christmas rearrange the world parade. As the world arranges it, usually there come first in importance -- leading the parade with a big blare of a band -- the Big Shots. Frequently they are also the Stuffed Shirts. That's the first of the parade. Then at the tail end, as of little importance, trudge the weary, the poor, the lame, the halt, and the blind. But in the Christmas spirit, the procession is turned around. Those at the tail end are put first in the arrangement of the Child of Christmas.”

World Firsts Children Littles Ends Bigs Spirit Turns Poor Christianity Band Shots Importance Blind Shirts Tails Weary Arrangements Halt Parades Lame Christmas Spirit Procession Big Shots

Author:Bill Vaughan

“I have very poor eyesight, and I can't imagine a world without my glasses or contacts.”

World I Can Poor Imagine Glasses Contact Eyesight Poor Eyesight

Author:Ellen Hollman

“I'm still a communist in the sense that I don't believe the world will survive with the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer - I think that the pressures will get so tremendous that the social contract will just come apart.”

Thinking World Believe Stills Social Poor Rich Pressure Don't Believe Contracts Communist Get Rich Social Contract

Author:Pete Seeger

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

People World Country States Care America Poor United Poverty United States Worst United States Of America Poor People

Author:Unita Blackwell

“Were all the pleasures in the world, even pure air, made solely for the rich? I think it is immoral - it is horrible! - that one man may own twenty millions of money, and another has to commit a crime to keep the life in his miserable body. And if I were wealthy, I'd be a spendthrift! It's the spendthrifts who are the real friends of the poor. Some of their money filters through to the very lowest classes.”

“What must it be like to live in Rush Limbaughs world? A world where when anyone other than conservative, white men attempts to do anything or enter any profession, be it business, politics, art or sports, the only reason theyre allowed entry or, incredibly, attain excellence is because the standard was lowered. Be they liberals, people of color, women, the poor or anyone with an accent.... Edgy, controversial, brilliant. What a way to shake up intelligent sports commentary. Hitler would have killed in talk radio. He was edgy, too.”

“It is incumbent on us diligently to remember that the kingdom of heaven was promised to the poor in spirit, and that minds afflicted by calamity and the contempt of mankind cheerfully listen to the divine promise of future happiness; while, on the contrary, the fortunate are satisfied with the possession of this world; and the wise abuse in doubt and dispute their vain superiority of reason and knowledge.”

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“The result of neo-colonialism is that foreign capital is used for the exploitation rather than for the development of the less developed parts of the world. Investment under neo-colonialism increases rather than decreases the gap between the rich and poor countries of the world.”

World Country Used Poor Results Rich Development Increase Investment Gaps Colonialism Exploitation Rich And Poor Decrease Poor Countries Countries Of The World

Book:Neo-colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism

Source: Neo-colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism

“The Quest for Prosperity is an important book. Written with verve and clarity, it reflects a deep understanding of global economic issues, and proposes practical solutions that anyone concerned with the plight of the world's poor would be wise to read.”

“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.”

People World Nations Poor Fats Poor People

Author:Phil Gramm

“The world is polarized. The middle class becomes smaller. The polarization makes the difference between rich and the poor big. This is true.”

World Bigs Differences Poor Class Rich Middle Middle Class Polarization

Author:Pope Francis

“We live in a world with serious class complexes. It is one thing to be a college student with loan debts and another thing to be just dirt poor for your entire life. The challenge is to come up with more complex understandings of where we are, more global awareness of what connects Americans with what is happening with suffering and oppressed people all around the world.”

People World Suffering Understanding Challenges Poor Class One Thing Awareness Students College Serious Happenings Complexes Come Up Debt Around The World Dirt Oppressed Loan College Students

Author:Bell Hooks

“No matter what is happening in life or in the world - war, natural disaster, poor health, pain, the death of loved ones - if existence is filled with art, music and literature, life will be fulfilling, a joy.”

“And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor, its seemingly inexplicable outbursts of violence-is shaped far less by what we celebrate and mythologize than by the painful events we try to forget. Leopold's Congo is but one of those silences of history.”

World Trying Forget Poor Silence Rich Violence Events Conflict Painful Celebrate Division Gaps Congo Rich And Poor Inexplicable Outburst

Book:King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa

Source: King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa

“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.”

People World Way Kind Two Different Facts Poor Materials Depends Majority Two Things Massive Establishment Different Kinds Poor People Raw Materials

Author:Hugh Masekela

“Just a simple choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one. Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money we spend on weapons and defenses each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would pay for many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace.”

“For what you call the Law is but a club of the rich over the lowest of men, sanctifying the conquest of the earth by a few and making their theft the way of things. But over and above these pitiful statutes of yours that enclose the common land and reduce us to poverty to make you fat stands the Law of Creation, which renders judgement on rich and poor alike, making them one. For freedom is the man who will thus turn the world upside down, therefore no wonder he has enemies”

“Think what the world could look like if we took care of the poor even half as well as we do our Bibles!”

Ifs Thinking World Wells Looks Care Poor Half

Author:Dorothy Day

“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.”

“The love of wisdom is a way of life; that is to say, it's a set of practices that have to do with mustering the courage to think critically about ourselves, society, and the world; mustering the courage to empathize; the courage, I would say, to love; the courage to have compassion with others, especially the widow and the orphan, the fatherless and the motherless, poor and working peoples, gays and lesbians, and so forth - and the courage to hope.”

Thinking World Way Poor Compassion Practice Gay Widows Orphan Fatherless

Author:Cornel West

“People have habits about what they think songs should be like. There's the folky thing of: "Poor me, I'm a sensitive person in a cruel world." Or the pop thing of: "Hey, look at me, I'm sexy."”

People Thinking World Should Looks Persons Song Poor Habit Sexy Pops Hey Sensitive Look At Me Cruel World Sensitive Person Poor Me

Author:Robert Wyatt

“The most sublime courage I have ever witnessed has been among that class too poor to know they possessed it, and too humble for the world to discover it.”

Knows World Has Beens Poor Class Courage Humble Possessed Sublime

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Such poverty as we have today in all our great cities degrades the poor, and infects with its degradation the whole neighborhood in which they live. And whatever can degrade a neighborhood can degrade a country and a continent and finally the whole civilized world, which is only a large neighborhood.”

World Country Whole Today Poor Cities Poverty Neighborhood Civilized Continents Degradation Degrade Great Cities

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“I resolved that women should have knowledge of contraception. They have every right to know about their own bodies. I would strikeout--I would scream from the housetops. I would tell the world what was going on in the lives of these poor women. I would be heard. No matter what it should cost. I would be heard.”

Knows World Should Matter Body Would Be Poor Heard Cost Should Have No Matter What Scream Contraception Strikeouts

Author:Margaret Sanger

“We are living in a demented world. And we know it. It would not come as a surprise to anyone if tomorrow the madness gave way to afrenzy which would leave our poor Europe in a state of distracted stupor, with engines still turning and flags streaming in the breeze, but with the spirit gone.”

Ifs Knows World Way Stills War States Spirit Poor History Gone Tomorrow Europe Madness Surprise War Of The Worlds Engines World War Ii Flags World War I Breeze Distracted Streaming Demented

Author:Johan Huizinga

“A good man will extend his munificence to the industrious poor of all persuasions reduced by age, infirmity, or accident; to thosewho labour under incurable maladies; and to the youth of either sex, who are capable of beginning the world with advantage, but have not the means.”

Men World Mean Age Sex Poor Youth Goodness Capable Advantage Charity Accidents Labour Good Man Persuasion Infirmity Industrious Malady

Author:Samuel Richardson

“God has made no one absolute. The rich depend on the poor, as well as the poor on the rich. The world is but a magnificent building; all the stones are gradually cemented together. No one subsists by himself.”

World Wells Made Together Poor Rich Building Depends Stones Absolutes Magnificent

Author:Owen Feltham

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