Poor People Quotes
290 quotes by 206 authors
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Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can…
— Charles Barkley
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It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity,…
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a…
— Jello Biafra
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Being Christian towards poor people means trying to improve their lives and give them back some self-respect.
— Jo Brand
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Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while a welfare state is scared to…
— Harry Browne
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Of the 22 industrialized nations of the world, we're dead last in per capita giving to poor people.
— Tony Campolo
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I contend that, in spite of all that might be said about Watergate, Richard Nixon was good for the poor people of America.
— Tony Campolo
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Democrats think the country works better with a strong middle class, real opportunities for poor people to work their way into it and a relentless…
— William J. Clinton
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If we want to give poor people soap we must set out deliberately to give them luxuries. If we will not make them rich enough…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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There are no automatic links between poverty and terrorism. Among millions of poor people in the world, only a few turn to terrorism.
— Gijs de Vries
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Without out suffering, our work would just be social work, very good and helpful, but it would not be the work of Jesus Christ, not…
— Mother Teresa
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All that proves is that most of the world is too poor to build bowling alleys, golf courses, tennis courts and baseball fields. There's hundreds…
— Mike Royko
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Poor people put a low value on themselves and their efforts.
— Daymond John
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Recent research shows that many children who do not have enough to eat wind up with diminished capacity to understand and learn. Children don't have…
— Carl Sagan
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Some people think that poor people are lazy. Actually, it takes a lot of work to survive when you are dirt-poor.
— Muhammad Yunus
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We create institutions and policies on the basis of the way we make assumptions about us and others. We accept the fact that we will…
— Muhammad Yunus
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"The life of the union depends upon more people getting to share the limelight, because with the limelight also comes responsibility and with the responsibility…
— Cesar Chavez
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It would help the poor people who need jobs. Minimum wage is a mandate. We're against mandates so why should we have it? It would…
— Ron Paul
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I like to help poor people who got no chance. If rich people don't, who will? Not other poor people, that's for sure.
— Charles Barkley
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The best way you hurt rich people is by turning them into poor people
— Eddie Murphy
Who Wrote These Poor People Quotes
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