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Poor Quotes

My record was so bad that I was first rejected by the Peace Corps as a poor risk and possible troublemaker and was accepted as a volunteer only after a great deal of explaining and arguing.

Great Peace Bad Poor Risk Possible

Abortion politics have distracted all sides from what is really essential: a major aid campaign to improve midwifery, prenatal care and emergency obstetric services in poor countries.

Nicholas Kristof

Politics Care Abortion Poor Sides

'The Accursed' is very much a novel about social injustice as the consequence of the terrible, tragic division of classes - the exploitation not only of poor and immigrant workers but of their young children in factories and mills - and as the consequence of race hatred in the aftermath of the Civil War and the freeing of the slaves.

Joyce Carol Oates

Children War Injustice Young Poor

Allowing Texas to display the Ten Commandments on State property but disallowing Kentucky courthouses from doing the same is a poor and flawed interpretation of the U.S. Constitution.

Ginny Brown-Waite

Constitution Texas Doing Poor Same

We are not Marxist or capitalist; we are for the poor people.

Mamata Banerjee

People Poor Poor People Marxist

Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.

Robert Green Ingersoll

God Heaven Poor Little Cost Market

It's hard to get people to empathize with the poor. You can get some people to sympathize with the poor, but to empathize is actually very hard, because most people are not poor. I realized that scarcity gives you a thread.

Sendhil Mullainathan

People You Poor Some People Hard

I took upon myself to enact the part of a poor, unfortunate crazy girl, and felt it my duty not to shirk any of the disagreeable results that should follow.

Girl Myself Crazy Results Duty Poor

It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.

Joshua Reynolds

Poor Talk Only Orator Eloquence

Logic is a poor model of cause and effect.

Gregory Bateson

Logic Poor Model Effect Cause

Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.

Fun People Saying Rich Say Poor

The high cost of housing is crushing poor families and sending them to a state of desperation.

Matthew Desmond

Poor Desperation Housing High Cost

In education, they say either property taxes have to go up, or we'll have poor education - that's a false choice.

Education Choice Go Say Poor Taxes

For most of history, almost everyone was poor. Power and wealth belonged to only a few.

Power History Wealth Poor Everyone

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Society Rich Poor Left Make Forces

A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.

Georges Bernanos

Hope Man Illusion Nothing Poor More

It's such a Bore Being always Poor.

Langston Hughes

Poor Always Being Bore

Many times when we are talking about displacement, we talk about it within the frame of gentrification, which focuses on transitioning neighborhoods. But man, every city I've looked at, Milwaukee included, most evictions are right there, smack dab in ungentrifying, poor, segregated communities.

Matthew Desmond

Man City Talking Poor Talk Right

Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.

Family Rich Die Poor Decent Means

If Love dwelt not in Trouble, it could have nothing to love. But its substance which it loves, namely the poor soul, being in trouble and pain, it hath thence cause to love this its own substance and to deliver it from pain, that so itself may by it be again beloved.

Love Soul Pain Trouble Nothing Poor

I have the goal of getting together 30 or 40 poor kids and bringing them to live with me.

Live Together Me Goal Poor Kids

Just as we should never balance the budget on the backs of the poor, so it is an economic delusion to think you can balance it only on the wallets of the rich.

Balance Rich Think Budget You Poor

Liberals have to get more comfortable with dealing with the poor as they actually are. I admire their refusal to look down on the least among us, but at some level, that can become an excuse to never really look at the problem at all.

Problem Look Down Poor Become Never

The globalization that has rescued so many in poor countries has harmed some people in rich countries, as factories and jobs migrated to where labor is cheaper.

People Rich Globalization Labor Poor

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