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
“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
“The poorest person on earth is not the person who has no job, no cars, no money and no house. The poorest… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
You can't break poor people mentality. Once you grow up poor, you don't take anything for granted. It can have the negative… — Will Smith Copy Share Image
“All these people get married for happiness, but the poor people become miserable within. That is because it is not under one’s… — Dada Bhagwan 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
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
What's more condescending and corny than someone telling you how much more money they have than you and telling you basically, 'I… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
“. . . Yes, I’m an aesthete. I like beauty. Yes – poor countries are beautiful. Poor people are beautiful. It’s a… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
Most poor people in America are white. The family breakdown issue is an issue that crosses all sorts of racial lines. High… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Most Americans think that public health is services for poor people, and since most Americans hate poor people and want all poor… — Laurie Garrett Copy Share Image
Poor people, especially those of color, are worth nothing to corporations and private contractors if they are on the street. In jail… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
The Nation of Islam was the biggest contributor to the Million Man March, but poor people gave their nickels, dimes and dollars;… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
Millionaires are just as patriotic as poor people. The very wealthy are just as noble and patriotic as the middle class. But… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
Poor people always pay back their loans. [...] It is us, the designers of institutions and rules, who keep creating trouble for them. — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
“His lines had been honed over centuries, passed down through generations, for poor people needed certain lines; the script was always the… — Kiran Desai Copy Share Image
“Humans aren’t going to do anything in time to prevent the planet from being destroyed wholesale. Poor people are too preoccupied by… — Aric McBay Copy Share Image
You must do as your people do. If my people are poor, I must be poor. People ask me, 'Why don't you… — Haile Gebrselassie Copy Share Image
“Christmas music in the summer?” I asked. “Of course.” Aaron turned the sound up, letting the music burst through our ears and… — R.A. Rooney Copy Share Image
We live in a country [USA] where the belief is that anyone can succeed, but for so many here, and for the… — Joy Bryant Copy Share Image
Societies tend to presume that poor people are unable to handle money. If they had any, people reason, the poor and homeless… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
“If you are poor and go without food and clothes, don't hope for wealth in paradise, you are already forsaken” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
In 88 poor countries for which we have data, in each and every one of the 88, the PPP for food shows… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
If I didn't like poor people, why would I come and tell them how to make their lives better? — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
“Last night I dreamed of the "happy hunting ground." I passed through a place of bones that looked human, but weren't--the skulls… — Breece D'J Pancake Copy Share Image