Poor Quotes

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The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time. — Willem de Kooning
In an era of global abundance, our world has the resources to reduce dramatically the massive divides that persist between rich and poor, if only… — Kofi Annan
Public education is the key civil rights issue of the 21st century. Our nation's knowledge-based economy demands that we provide young people from all backgrounds… — Eli Broad
Money is human kind's greatest invention. Money doesn't discriminate. Money doesn't care whether a person is poor, whether a person comes from a good family,… — Takafumi Horie
It's easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor. — Ray Kroc
I'm calling for all responsible Americans to fight back and punish Pepsi for using a man who degrades women, who encourages substance abuse, and does… — Bill O'Reilly
It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor. — Seneca the Younger
We create institutions and policies on the basis of the way we make assumptions about us and others. We accept the fact that we will… — Muhammad Yunus
He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor. — Samuel Johnson
When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will — William Shakespeare
Four specters haunt the poor - old age, accident, sickness and unemployment — David Lloyd George
The trouble is that rich people, well-to-do people, very often don't really know who the poor are; and that is why we can forgive them,… — Mother Teresa
Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as… — Thomas Jefferson
To live in poverty is to live with constant uncertainty, to accept galling indignities, and to expect harassment by the police, welfare officials and employers,… — Barbara Ehrenreich
Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Do not tell me of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. His responsibility to God is so much the less — Christian Nestell Bovee
Never in the history of the world have so many people been so rich; never in the history of the world have so many of… — Lewis H. Lapham
Poverty is everyone's problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black or white; rich,… — Kathleen Blanco
Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc. — Mason Cooley

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