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I am - Somebody. I may be poor, but I am - Somebody! I may be on welfare, but I am - Somebody! I may… — Jesse Jackson
I choose kindness... I will be kind to the poor, for they are alone. Kind to the rich, for they are afraid. And kind to… — Max Lucado
In this time of globalization, with all its advantages, the poor are the most vulnerable to having their traditions, relationships and knowledge and skills ignored… — James Wolfensohn
The best thing a man can do for his culture when he is rich is to endeavor to carry out those schemes which he entertained… — Henry David Thoreau
Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill… — Roger Bannister
But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here,… — Abraham Lincoln
There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless. — Mark Twain
And no one has the right to say that no water-babies exist, till they have seen no water-babies existing; which is quite a different thing,… — Charles Kingsley
When Franklin drew the lightning from the clouds, he little dreamed that in the evolution of science his discovery would illuminate the torch of Liberty… — Chauncey Depew
Apart from their other characteristics, the outstanding thing about China's 600 million people is that they are "poor and blank". This may seem a bad… — Mao Zedong
I would like to take the great DiMaggio fishing," the old man said. "They say his father was a fisherman. Maybe he was as poor… — Ernest Hemingway
But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which… — Voltaire
Ultimate Reality is not clearly and immediately apprehended except by those who have made themselves loving, pure in heart and poor in spirit. — Aldous Huxley
Historically, software for business was seen as unsexy because the products were seen as so poor - they provided such a poor user experience. — Justin Rosenstein
I grew up in Tuscany in a very poor family. My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was… — Roberto Benigni
He presented himself as the friend to Main Street America, and yet that aw-shucks persona ended up packaging policies and programs that were at times… — Eugene Jarecki
Sports fans have been mistreated for a long time. They have overpaid for inferior food and they have had poor service. — Dave Checketts
Poor privileged white men. Their stranglehold on power is slowly being loosened. — Madeleine M. Kunin
Those who buy in to global warming wish to drastically curb human economic and industrial activities, regardless of the consequences for people, especially the poor. — Paul Johnson
The global financial crisis - missed by most analysts - shows that most forecasters are poor at pricing in economic/financial risks, let alone geopolitical ones. — Nouriel Roubini

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