Poor Quotes

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A very common flower adds generosity to beauty. It gives joy to the poor, to the rude, and to the multitudes who could have no… — Henry Ward Beecher
But more than anything else, we have learned that legal assistance for the poor, when properly provided, is one of the most constructive ways to… — Richard M. Nixon
The church must never become a government factory, carrying on a nationalized industry of religion with the people as the bolts and nuts; with God… — Glenn Archer
What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors. It's astounding to me, for example, that so many people… — James A. Baldwin
After macrobiotics, Zen, and channeling, the "poor Vanishing Indian" is once more the subject of "deep and meaningful conversation" in the high rises. — Mary Brave Bird
I am yet too young to understand that God is any respecter of persons. I believe that to have interfered as I have done...in behalf… — John Brown
No poor, rural, weak, or black person should ever again have to bear the additional burden of being deprived of the opportunity for an education,… — Jimmy Carter
In the whole world no poor devil is lynched, no wretch is tortured, in whom I too am not degraded and murdered. — Aime Cesaire
God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear this morning brings The outrage of the poor. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I was not poor, I was needy. They told me it was self-defeating to… — Jules Feiffer
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law. — Oliver Goldsmith
America is concerned more with the possibility of moon folks than the reality of hungry poor folks. — Dick Gregory
We have deluded ourselves into believing the myth that capitalism grew and prospered out of the Protestant ethic of hard work and sacrifices. Capitalism was… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
All life is interrelated. The agony of the poor impoverishes the rich; the betterment of the poor enriches the rich. We are inevitably our brother's… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Chivalry is a poor substitute for justice, if one cannot have both. Chivalry is something like the icing on the cake, sweet but not nourishing. — Nellie L. McClung
The Bible has been used as a way of making us accept our situation, and not to bring enlightenment to the poor. — Rigoberta Menchu
Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole. — Baruch Spinoza
Seldom or never is a poor man honored by the world; however worthy of honor he may be, he is apt rather to be despised… — Teresa of Avila
Charity is an ugly trick. It is a virtue grown by the rich on the graves of the poor. Unless it is accompanied by sincere… — Rebecca West
Even strong as they are today, rich countries should have no illusion: nobody is safe in aworld of injustices.War will never bring security.War can only… — Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

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