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I went off to a school with the children of CEOs and diplomats. To be able to be at home with that group of people… — James Green Somerville
My father was a Presbyterian minister, working among the poor in West Virginia. He had taken what amounted to a vow of poverty when he… — James Green Somerville
In the best days of our republic Americans were fiercely proud of the fact that rich and poor met on such equal terms in so… — Robert W. Welch, Jr.
While the President leads his potential adversaries in almost every state, his support is soft. He is seen as honest, sincere, just, and friendly but… — Robert Teeter
The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation. — Orhan Pamuk
Went to 16 and hit a really bad 3 wood for my second shot and got stuck in the bunker about 70 yards from the… — Trent Dilfer
This erosion of the middle class is happening all over the place. The opening of a wider gap between rich and poor is always accompanied… — Susan George
Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion. — Gerrit Smith
The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash. — Gerrit Smith
Many poor and low-income women cannot afford to purchase contraceptive services and supplies on their own. — Louise Slaughter
These poor wretches were stolen from their homes, carried to a strange country, and sold to servitude, from which they sought to escape on the… — Philip Hone
Last year, when we were in Mobile, Al., covering Hurricane Ivan, we heard the stories of poor people, many of them black stranded downtown because… — Al Roker
After that I won a prize, I was with a group of ancient music of Spain that they helped me a lot with a grant,… — Victoria de los Angeles
I. cannot stoop to reply to the folly and the slander of every poor Tory partisan who assails me, and I should not have noticed… — John Bright
There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very… — Barbara Castle
For humble individuals like myself, there is one poor comfort, which is this, viz. that gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than… — Thomas Sydenham
She was trusted and valued by her father, loved and courted by all dogs, cats, children, and poor people, and slighted and neglected by everybody… — Anne Bronte
I guess none of us like to look back in our lives to a time when we made poor judgments and foolish mistakes. — John Clayton
Perhaps they do not recognize themselves, for a rich man is even harder to define than a poor one. — William Graham Sumner
The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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