I used to be called the "Green Jack Kemp" because of my promotion of entrepreneurial and work-based solutions for poor people. — Van Jones Copy Share Image
It's astounding to me that in a country where there is an ever-growing divide between rich and poor, that people won't accept… — Bill Pullman Copy Share Image
The way the [welfare] programs are organized, poor people are only paid to do things that are counter-productive - such as breaking… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“(Regarding check-cashing places): It's hitting me how poor this really is: I'm standing in a long line to pay someone to give… — Angela Nissel Copy Share Image
All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Poor people who had escaped from poverty as I had, feared it, hated it and fled from it all their lives. Those… — Anzia Yezierska Copy Share Image
Free enterprise is the best economic system in the history of the world, because it is the only system where you can… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
“You know what you learn when you study the legal system? Poor people pass down damage the way rich people pass down… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
There are plenty of risks when we encourage "investment" or commoditization of natural resources, as power dynamics may mean that poor people… — Helene D. Gayle Copy Share Image
We don't have a choice about Facebook any more. The choice element is less obvious than it seems. Maybe the 1bn poor… — Andrew Keen Copy Share Image
I've found that a lot of successful poker players grew up poor. And I'm convinced that poor people have a risk tolerance… — Chamath Palihapitiya Copy Share Image
In situations of sparse resources along with degraded self-images and depoliticized sensibilities, one avenue for poor people is in existential rebellion and… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Genes do make a contribution to the IQ score - but a flower needs soil. The environment for poor people is so… — Jerome Kagan 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
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
“Progressivism is a spectrum; it’s not an ideology following one leader saying one thing. It’s many people who have very wildly diverging… — Urvashi Vaid Copy Share Image
“In the old days [it ran], before the glorious Revolution, London was not the beautiful city that we know today. It was… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
John Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath' also speaks urgently to today's concerns: the cratered trail of dreams for Mexican immigrants seeking a… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
I was more than anything a radical. I was more sympathetic to Malcolm X than Martin Luther King because Malcolm X was… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
“Jo, they have a baby grand piano, but no one in the family plays. They have shelves of books they've never read,… — Ruta Sepetys Copy Share Image
“[to Samuel Urlsperger, 13 Oct 1732:] I am now directed to inform You that there has been a Conference here between the… — Henry Newman Copy Share Image
“The next morning I told Mom I couldn't go to school again. She asked what was wrong. I told her, “The same… — Jonathan Safran Foer 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
Ours is not a poor country and even though we are now a poor people, there should be no room for the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Liberals will not let you improve the schools or the educational opportunities for poor people, because they want to maintain their teachers… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I worshipped money so much that it ruined my life. Money is not my god. I just want to manage His money… — Brian Welch Copy Share Image
People in Medicaid ought to have access to the same insurance as the rest of the population. If they are segregated, it… — John Goodman Copy Share Image
“Dublin was an English city, one of the loveliest. The most Irish thing about it was the shifting drab flow of the… — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
Poor people are much more daring than the rich ones, a rich one is so fearful that he move with body guards… — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
Even when uttered by Democrats, "middle class" often sounds like a mealymouthed way of saying, "Us, and not them," where "them" includes… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
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… — John Lee Hooker Copy Share Image
The medical protocol for poor people is, if something hurts, get over it. If something hurts real bad, put salve on it. — Bobby Bones Copy Share Image
In Asia, we live within our means. So when we are poor, we live as poor people. I think that is a… — Mahathir Mohamad Copy Share Image
The mass incarceration of poor people of color, particularly black men, has emerged as a new caste system, one specifically designed to… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
We grew up as poor people but we never knew poverty. I still love and miss the Somalia I grew up in.… — Iman Abdulmajid Copy Share Image
If you want to change who you are, begin by changing the size of your dream. Even if you are broke, it… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
“If the only option you leave poor people with is to resort to violence in order to survive, they’ll do just that.… — Michael Monroe Copy Share Image
The problem is not just affirmative action, though. The problem is poor people, working people and their children, and affirmative action for… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“I believe poor people are good people, except the ones that are mean … and they’d be mean even if they were rich.” — Fannie Flagg Copy Share Image
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![“In the old days [it ran], before the glorious Revolution, London was not the beautiful city that we know today. It was a dark, dirty, miserable place where hardly anybody had enough to eat and where hundreds and thousands of poor people had no boots on their feet and not even a roof to sleep…” quote by George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2a7/george-orwell-57_money_in-the-old-days-it-ran-before-the-glorio_848583.jpg)
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![“[to Samuel Urlsperger, 13 Oct 1732:] I am now directed to inform You that there has been a Conference here between the Gentlemen [Trustees] empowered by His Majesty to make a new Settlement in Georgia in South Carolina, and the Gentlemen of this Society [S.P.C.K.] concerning the most effectual…” quote by Henry Newman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/42a/henry-newman-242378_poor-people_to-samuel-urlsperger-13-oct-1732-i-am-no_2368337.jpg)
