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The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor, and the social problems should largely be solved by them. — Rudolf Virchow
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.… — Dorothy Day
Either you look at the universe as a very poor creation out of which no one can make anything or you look at your own… — Thomas Merton
The devil is no fool. He can get people feeling about heaven the way they ought to feel about hell. He can make them fear… — Thomas Merton
When you are a rich man you are proud to own a Rolls Royce and when you are a poor man you are proud to… — Eric Cantona
Football is one of the world's best means of communication. It is impartial, apolitical and universal. Football unites people around the world every day. Young… — Franz Beckenbauer
Well, it all began with Democracy. Before we had the vote all the power was in the hands of rich people. If you had money… — Tony Benn
People in debt become hopeless and hopeless people don’t vote. They always say that that everyone should vote but I think that if the poor in… — Tony Benn
The poor prey on one another because their lives offer no hope and communicate the tragic message to these human beings that they have no… — Thabo Mbeki
There are those who argue that everything breaks even in this old dump of a world of ours. I suppose these ginks who argue that… — Bat Masterson
Middle income families with children are Australia’s new poor — Tony Abbott
The impact of NCDs is not only affecting the urban populations but also rural poor. This is compounding the basic problem of poverty. — Marty Natalegawa
The sad fact is that people are poor because they have not yet decided to be rich. People are overweight and unfit because they have… — Brian Tracy
O poor New England! There is a deep laid plot against your civil and religious liberties, and they will be lost. Your golden days are… — George Whitefield
I am a missionary, heart and soul. God had an only Son, and He was a missionary and a physician. I am a poor, poor… — David Livingstone
I looked around at what my colleagues were doing, and asked myself, 'What relationship has it with what's going on?' I found there was a… — Martin Parr
On the most elementary level, you do not have to go to church to be a Christian. You do not have to go home to… — R. Kent Hughes
We have to grasp, as Marx and Adam Smith did, that corporations are not concerned with the common good. They exploit, pollute, impoverish, repress, kill,… — Chris Hedges
They [Harvard academia] liked the poor, but didn't like the smell of the poor. — Chris Hedges
The man who enters combat encased in solid armor plate, but lacking the essential of selfconfidence, is far more exposed and naked to death than… — Robert S. Johnson
The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are. — Mark Twain
If you were a poor Indian with no weapons, and a bunch of conquistadors came up to you and asked where the gold was, I… — Jack Handey
If I ever get rich, I hope I'm not real mean to poor people, like I am now. — Jack Handey
When I was a kid we were so poor, if I hadn't been a boy I wouldn't have had anything to play with. — Rodney Dangerfield
...it is seldom indeed that a composition which was poor when the picture was taken can be improved by reshaping it in the dark room. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

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