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Poor Quotes by Dorothy Day
- What we would like to do is change the world...by crying out unceasingly for the rights of the workers, of the poor, of the destitute.…
- Do not give to the poor expecting to get their gratitude so that you can feel good about yourself. If you do, your giving will…
- We want no revolution; we want the brotherhood of men. We want men to love one another. We want all men to have what is…
- I offered up a special prayer, a prayer which came with tears and anguish, that some way would open up for me to use what…
- I do not know how to love God except by loving the poor. I do not know how to serve God except by serving the…
- I cannot worry much about your sins and miseries when I have so many of my own. I can only love you all, poor fellow…
- If you have two coats, one of them belongs to the poor.
- So many sins against the poor cry out to high heaven! One of the most deadly sins is to deprive the laborer of his hire.…
- This is so rich a country that luxury has developed at the expense of necessities, and even the destitute partake of the luxury. We are…
- I firmly believe that our salvation depends on the poor.
- I felt that the Church was the Church of the poor,... but at the same time, I felt that it did not set its face…
- Those who cannot see Christ in the poor are atheists indeed.
- The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.
- The mystery of poverty is that by sharing in it, making ourselves poor in giving to others, we increase our knowledge of and belief in…
- We're living in an age of genocide. ...And we do believe that there is not only the genocide of war, and the genocide that took…
More Poor Quotes
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and… — Saint Augustine
- Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony. — Jane Austen
- My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much… — Teresa of Avila
- Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress. — Francis Bacon
- Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out of poverty… — Russell Baker
- Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse. — Abu Bakr
- I still think I'm like the poor girl from Colorado who worked three jobs to buy a car. That's still my mentality,… — Amy Adams
- Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. — James A. Baldwin
- A man is a poor creature compared to a woman. — Honore de Balzac
- But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other… — Honore de Balzac
- I think that age as a number is not nearly as important as health. You can be in poor health and be… — Bob Barker