Poor Quotes

I believe Aids is the most important issue we face, because how we treat the poor is a reflection of who we are as a people.

I came from a very poor family and my main dream in life was to break out of this poverty.

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low.

There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so.

There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief.

I firmly believe that our salvation depends on the poor.

What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating.

I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I'm not ashamed of anything.

Ours is not a poor country and even though we are now a poor people, there should be no room for the despondency that has settled on large sections of the population.

When you're poor, you know nothing about the future, you know nothing about the world, nothing that goes on outside 300 yards around you.

Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - particularly the 'forgotten emergencies' in poor countries or regions with little strategic or material appeal.

I grew up on what everybody called a plantation - but believe me, it wasn't a plantation. It was just an old farm. I grew up with a lot of black people working in the fields, and it was during the Depression between 1930 and the war, so we were all poor - black and white.

Perhaps they do not recognize themselves, for a rich man is even harder to define than a poor one.

They talked about me as if I were Mother Teresa, and that every time I get a paycheck I go and send it to poor people and that we spend every free moment helping out people less fortunate. That was an enormous exaggeration.

The interesting thing is, while we die of diseases of affluence from eating all these fatty meats, our poor brethren in the developing world die of diseases of poverty, because the land is not used now to grow food grain for their families.

I come from a poor family.

The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.

Europe has to avoid old prejudices and new ones. That means north versus south, rich versus poor.

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.

A safety net for the poor indeed requires some level of income redistribution.

He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.

I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.

Somewhere near you, somebody right now is trying to help the indigent and poor - providing food, shelter, clothing or simple kindness.

The body is the soul's poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are and whose flesh the loam.

God has always been hard on the poor.

The only violence was when these so-called 'freedom fighters' terrorized the poor Africans in the villages... They were told what to do and who to support.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.

Therefore I do pray and entreat you in the name of Jesus Christ to do so much as to make my being here in Japan known to my poor wife, in a manner a widow and my two children fatherless; which thing only is my greatest grief of heart and conscience.