I don't like laughing at people unless they're in a privileged position or if they're in authority. If it's poor people or… — Taika Waititi Copy Share Image
This is not a country that has had a tremendous sympathy for poor people, so I think that the notion that somehow… — Faye Wattleton Copy Share Image
I represent poor people, I represent working people. I represent senior citizens. I represent family businesses. I represent people who don't have… — Paul Broun Copy Share Image
I was very sad for many days when I discovered that in the world there were poor people and rich people; and… — Evita Peron Copy Share Image
Sometimes we are tempted to find excuses and complain, acting as if we could only be happy if a thousand conditions were… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“For the love of Christ give me a groat!” in a voice so hoarse and broken that I started, and felt a… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Prior to Katrina, the South Bronx and New Orleans' Ninth Ward had a lot in common. Both were largely populated by poor… — Majora Carter Copy Share Image
Congress is thinking about eliminating a federal program under which scientists broadcast signals to Alien beings. This would be a large mistake.… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“Is that not what makes it great?' he retorted to his friend. 'Its beauty resides in its silence, and its glory in… — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
Don't order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The problem is that affirmative action could never really get at the issue of corporate power in the workplace, and so you… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
If we want to help poor people out, one way to do that is to help them explore and use their own… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
How impossible it is for us to imagine ourselves victims of disaster. We suffer for the poor people who were thrown into… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
My perspective is never gonna change on that... We've got to do a much better job to take care of poor people,… — Charles Barkley Copy Share Image
Rich people believe "You can have your cake and eat it too." Middle-class people believe "Cake is too rich, so I'll only… — T. Harv Eker Copy Share Image
It's amazing to me how many people think that voting to have the government give poor people money is compassion. Helping poor… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
“The greatest miracle was that in the end I could actually feel pity for those men because they were so deluded: they… — Diet Eman Copy Share Image
So many people for so many years have promoted technology as the answer to everything. The economy wasn't growing: technology. Poor people:… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
“Now days people are using "Temples" & God as a business purposes. Instead of wasting money on them donate that to some… — Rohit Kumar Singh Copy Share Image
“Evil exists," he says, not flinching at the word. "I believe that what the rich have done to the poor people in… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
The trouble with blaming powerless people is that although it's not nearly as scary as blaming the powerful, it does miss the… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
“Copaganda leaves the public in a vague state of fear. It manufactures suspicions against poor people, immigrants, and racial minorities rather than,… — Alec Karakatsanis Copy Share Image
“Poor people don't want to stay poor. But there's a misconception that it's somehow "unfair" to poor people, or, worse, racist, to… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
Over the years, as I lived in low-income housing, collected government assistance, and lived well under the poverty level as I put… — Stephanie Land Copy Share Image
“The reason most people are wealthy is not that they are smart or hardworking individuals, but it is because they are heartless… — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
I believe in the law. I think we have a great system of justice. But I do think that system of justice… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
For the present system to work, poor people must be excluded from the innovation, because if they could get access at an… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
No one can say how long the process of human extinction might take, but as it proceeds, the same global order will… — Joel Sternfeld Copy Share Image
If we wanted a program to help the majority of the population, we'd offer loan guarantees to help poor people get access… — Megan McArdle Copy Share Image
South Africa does not have a poverty problem. Poverty is a result of denialism of the way corruption taxes poor people, the… — Mamphela Ramphele Copy Share Image
I'm not pessimistic, because poor people tend to bounce back. We've been through worse than this - working people been through worse… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
If sometimes our poor people have had to die of starvation, it is not that God didn't care for them, but because… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Climate change is...a gross injustice-poor people in developing countries bear over 90% of the burden-through death, disease, destitution and financial loss-yet are… — Barbara Stocking Copy Share Image
“Our poor people are great people, a very lovable people, They don't need our pity and sympathy. They need our understanding love… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
We create institutions and policies on the basis of the way we make assumptions about us and others. We accept the fact… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Neither one of the parties is doing anything for poor people. They're both full of it. Black people have been voting Democratic… — Charles Barkley Copy Share Image
“Their behavior indicated that the stigma of being on welfare, which had been powerful throughout American history—even in the Depression—had lost some… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
Over the last thirty years or so, I have definitely become more enlightened about corners of the social spectrum that I had… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
I still remember how upset I was in the aftermath of President Obama's election, where people in Republican leadership didn't say that,… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
We have seven and a half times as many people in prison. And we have eight times as many black women in… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
