Poor people Quote by Matthew Desmond

“Poor neighborhoods provided their residents with quite a lot. In the trailer park, residents met people who knew how to pirate cable, when the…

— Matthew Desmond

“...oppression is really quite simple. It's about looting.”

— Aurora Levins Morales

“It was strange how it was always the poor who picked us up [hitchhiking]...They dwelled beneath poverty lines and were undereducated, but they were...more…

— Ken Ilgunas

“People in that crowd want to make poverty history, but NOT if they have to pay for it themselves”

— ben elton

“You can't do much for the poor, as they are not in with the right people.”

— Will Cuppy

“I'd used people's stories and their lives to bolster my political arguments for changing welfare. Now, however, I was running into the people themselves,…

— David Kuo

“It is the people who cannot stand oppression that qualifies to fight today’s modern slavery.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“I can't imagine what kind of poverty would motivate a person to forget themselves and everyone they loved so their families could get a…

— Veronica Roth

“Poor people knew how to party. The”

— Warren Hammond

“For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become…

— George Orwell

“Those who see poverty looking for human slaves to capture, will tell you they saw him holding the handcuffs of laziness.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

“Their behavior indicated that the stigma of being on welfare, which had been powerful throughout American history—even in the Depression—had lost some of its…

— James T. Patterson