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Our struggle is not easy. Those who oppose our cause are rich and powerful and they have many allies in high places. We are poor.… — Cesar Chavez
Rich men are to bear the infirmities of the poor, and wise are to bear the mistakes of the ignorant. — Henry Ward Beecher
Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
[The papists] ought to have sympathy with us weak, poor Christians, and not condemn us or make fun of us because we are learning so… — Martin Luther
A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor. — Alexander Smith
The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory. — Oscar Wilde
Be rich for yourself and poor to your friends. — Juvenal
You and I possess manifold ideal bonds in the interests we share; but each of us has his poor body and his irremediable, incommunicable dreams. — George Santayana
The poor ego has a still harder time of it; it has to serve three harsh masters, and it has to do its best to… — Sigmund Freud
A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of non pertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow,… — Charles Lamb
Historians will come to their own judgments about President Kennedy. Here is how I choose to remember him. He was an heir to wealth who… — Edward Kennedy
You bear God within you, poor wretch, and know it not. — Epictetus
The success of a close friend is often wounding, especially if he has been poor for so long. — Tom Baker
Everything depends on attitude. We are ambitious or lazy, enthusiastic or dull, loyal or undependable, according to our attitude. We get good grades or poor… — Sterling W Sill
It would help the poor people who need jobs. Minimum wage is a mandate. We're against mandates so why should we have it? It would… — Ron Paul
I like to help poor people who got no chance. If rich people don't, who will? Not other poor people, that's for sure. — Charles Barkley
Poor white people and poor black people just don't know how much they have in common. Rich people don't give a damn about either group. — Charles Barkley
Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead! There's none of these so lonely and poor of old, But, dying, has made us rarer gifts… — Rupert Brooke
It's hard for me to congratulate somebody after you just lose to them, I'm a winner. It's not being a poor sport or anything like… — LeBron James
When you win, sometimes it overshadows a poor performance. — Mike Krzyzewski

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