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In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor. — Andrew Young
Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life. — Andrew Young
I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over. — Muhammad Yunus
I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was… — Muhammad Yunus
They explained to me that the bank cannot lend money to poor people because these people are not creditworthy. — Muhammad Yunus
In my experience, poor people are the world's greatest entrepreneurs. Every day, they must innovate in order to survive. They remain poor because they do… — Muhammad Yunus
Bill Cosby is a famous black guy who has a bully pulpit the size of the world; it's global. He puts his colossal foot on… — Michael Eric Dyson
Our poor people are great people, a very lovable people, They don't need our pity and sympathy. They need our understanding love and they need… — Mother Teresa
The rich are the most discriminated-against minority in the world. Openly or covertly, everybody hates the rich because, openly or covertly, everybody envies the rich.… — Tom Robbins
Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs. — Zig Ziglar
We must powder our wigs; that is why so many poor people have no bread. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The question is very understandable, but no one has found a satisfactory answer to it so far. Yes, why do they make still more gigantic… — Anne Frank
I believe that we can create a poverty-free world because poverty is not created by poor people. It has been created and sustained by the… — Muhammad Yunus
There were people who went to sleep last night, poor and rich and white and black, but they will never wake again. And those dead… — Maya Angelou
Poor people have few choices in life, and most of the time you don't think too much about it. You get the best you can… — Lisa Kleypas
Look at the stupid, poor people. Look at the stupid, poor, burned-out people. Look at the stupid, poor, burned-out people, look at their dead baby.… — Laurie Halse Anderson
You took a walk on a Sunday afternoon and came to a nice neighborhood, very refined. You saw a small one of these trees through… — Betty Smith
When people love each other, they are content with very little. When we have light and joy in our hearts, we don't need material wealth.… — Jean Vanier
No matter where its seed fell, it made a tree which struggled to reach the sky. It grew in boarded-up lots and out of neglected… — Betty Smith
It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country. — Paul Farmer
Progressive liberals seem incapable of stating the obvious truth: that we who are well off should be willing to share more of what we have… — David Foster Wallace
Do I resent rich people? No. The best or worst I can do is notice them. I agree with the great Socialist writer George Orwell,… — Kurt Vonnegut
Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night — Gloria Steinem
When you love poor people THAT MUCH, when you love 'working people' THAT MUCH, that makes you the freest man/woman in the country." - Cornel… — Cornel West
Poor people never, or hardly ever, ask for an explanation of all they have to put up with. They hate one another, and content themselves… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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