Going in and out of a proverbial 'poor door' - a separate entrance for income-restricted residents of mixed-income housing - of your city every day has its costs, even if the 'poor door' woman would be considered affluent in another location.
Alissa Quart
DayWomanCityDoorEvery DayPoor
Men there have been who have done the essayist's part so well as to have earned an immortality in the doing; but we have had not many of them, and they make but a poor figure on our shelves. It is a pity that things should be thus with us, for a good essayist is the pleasantest companion imaginable.
William Ernest Henley
GoodMenDoingDonePoorCompanion
Contrary to popular belief. It's much wiser to take money from the poor than the rich.
Mike Royko
MoneyRichWiserBeliefPoorTake
What makes tar sands particularly odious is that the energy you get out in the end, per unit carbon dioxide, is poor. It's equivalent to burning coal in your automobile.
James Hansen
EnergyEndYouPoorAutomobileOut
There is growing inequality. The families of the all-powerful Ministers are getting richer. The poor and hard-working Belizeans are getting poorer.
Said Musa
InequalityGrowingPoorFamilies
I think mental illness or madness can be an escape also. People don't develop a mental illness because they are in the happiest of situations, usually. One doctor observed that it was rare when people were rich to become schizophrenic. If they were poor or didn't have too much money, then it was more likely.
John Forbes Nash, Jr.
MoneyPeopleDoctorRichThinkPoor
Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.
William Shenstone
HopeManPoorShePalaceSuperior
I don't know if I hadn't grown up poor, and in the neighborhood I did, if I would have had that much to bring to my art form. I call upon my past with characters.
Ving Rhames
ArtPastKnowPoorUpBring
When you win, sometimes it overshadows a poor performance.
Mike Krzyzewski
WinPerformanceYouSometimesPoor
My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
ParentsPartyPoorUpCommunist
People can very quickly have a very poor self-image. It doesn't take much.
Paddy Considine
PeoplePoorSelf-ImageTakeMuch
I grew up on 135th Street. I grew up on the poor side of New York. I grew up in Harlem.
John Catsimatidis
New YorkNewStreetPoorUpSide
Wealth does not trickle down to the poor. Oxfam knows this, the IMF knows this, the World Bank knows this. Poor people have always known this.
Winnie Byanyima
PeopleWorldWealthDownPoorBank
What many economists fail to understand is that poor people are no less concerned about improving their lot and that of their children than rich people are.
Theodore Schultz
ChildrenPeopleRichUnderstandPoor
People are swept into the criminal justice system - particularly in poor communities of color - at very early ages... typically for fairly minor, nonviolent crimes.
Michelle Alexander
JusticePeopleColorEarlyPoor
What are the 10 major legacies that European colonization have left behind? Issues of illiteracy. Issues of ill health. Issues of poor infrastructure. Issues of backward agricultural economies. And it goes on.
Hilary Beckles
HealthPoorInfrastructureLeftGoes
I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
Pablo Picasso
LiveMoneyManPoorPoor ManLike
The meaning of life. The wasted years of life. The poor choices of life. God answers the mess of life with one word: 'grace.'
Max Lucado
LifeGodGraceChoicesMeaningPoor
Perhaps they do not recognize themselves, for a rich man is even harder to define than a poor one.
William Graham Sumner
ManRichPoorRich ManDefineEven
Until these college students came into town, we were all very poor and didn't have money to do anything.
Santiago Durango
MoneyCollegePoorStudentsAnything
I grew up as an only child with a single mother. Because we were poor and because I knew my father had emigrated from Syria, I imagined he looked like Omar Sharif.
Mona Simpson
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Life is now a war zone, and as such, the number of people considered disposable has grown exponentially, and this includes low income whites, poor minorities, immigrants, the unemployed, the homeless, and a range of people who are viewed as a liability to capital and its endless predatory quest for power and profits.
Henry Giroux
LifePowerWarPeopleHomelessPoor
I'm for helping the poor, always have been. And I don't think they should be bereft of healthcare.
Orrin Hatch
ThinkHealthcarePoorAlwaysBeen
Donald intends to represent all the people, not just some of the people. That includes Christians and Jews and Muslims; it includes Hispanics and African Americans and Asians, and the poor and the middle-class. Throughout his career, Donald has successfully worked with people of many faiths and with many nations.
Melania Trump
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