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Don't order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be patient with the… — George Bernard Shaw
[The word class has] been excised from the acceptable political vocabulary, except in the limited usage of right-wingers when they accuse liberals of inciting 'class… — Harry Shearer
Foreign aid is taking money from the poor people of a rich country and giving it to the rich people of a poor country. — Ron Paul
I choose the poverty of our poor people. But I am grateful to receive it (the Nobel) in the name of the hungry, the naked,… — Mother Teresa
I really want to move to a country where the poor people are fat. — Dinesh D'Souza
Institutions work this way. A son is murdered by the police, and nothing is done. The institutions send the victim's family on a merry-go-round, going… — Huey Newton
Policy, for the most part, has been made by white people in America, not by people of color. Â And they have tended to take… — Maxine Waters
This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color. Every few years you will see… — Maxine Waters
I can live well with what I have.I’m called ‘the poorest president’, but I don’t feel poor. Poor people are those who only work to… — Jose Mujica
One of the reasons that so many people of color and poor people are in prison is that the deindustrialization of the economy has led… — Angela Davis
A considerable proportion of the developed world's prosperity rests on paying the lowest possible prices for the poor countries' primary products and on exporting high-cost… — Philip Agee
When government does, occasionally, work, it works in an elitist fashion. That is, government is most easily manipulated by people who have money and power… — P.J. O'Rourke
Simply put, unsustainable debt is helping to keep too many poor countries and poor people in poverty. — William J. Clinton
The evidence of history speaks with a single voice. I do not know any exception to the proposition that if you compare like with like,… — Milton Friedman
More paper money cannot make a society richer, of course — it is just more printed paper. Otherwise, why is it that there are still… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe
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
If I ever get rich, I hope I'm not real mean to poor people, like I am now. — Jack Handey
Charity wins awards and applause, but joining the poor gets you killed. People do not get crucified for charity. People are crucified for living out a love… — Shane Claiborne
In a system of free trade and free markets poor countries - and poor people - are not poor because others are rich. Indeed, if… — Margaret Thatcher
To see those babies with no food for three of four days, old people sitting in the hot sun, when you see these poor people,… — Geraldo Rivera
Grab your pig's feet, bread, and gin, there's plenty in the kitchen. I wonder what the poor people are eating tonight? — Fats Waller
We might be on the brink of an apocalypse if, instead of poor people with suicide bombs killing middle class guys, middle-class people with suicide… — Bruce Sterling
I was more than anything a radical. I was more sympathetic to Malcolm X than Martin Luther King because Malcolm X was more of a… — Walter E. Williams
Buy less. Choose well. Make it last. Quality, not quantity. Everybody’s buying far too many clothesI mean, I know I’m lucky, I can just take… — Vivienne Westwood
How impossible it is for us to imagine ourselves victims of disaster. We suffer for the poor people who were thrown into the sea from… — Vivienne Westwood

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