Poor Quotes

I grew up poor. I never had any money. I was a hobo, you know, ride the freights.

The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.

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

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've an enormous respect for my mother who at the age of 39 raised three children, and I grew up with my grandmother in the household. And so it was a really strong household of women - my poor brother! It was great growing up with so many generations of women.

Hey, you got something going here. I think we've got a chance for some progressive policy that actually focuses on poor and working people.

Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money.

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.

Of the 22 industrialized nations of the world, we're dead last in per capita giving to poor people.

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

I've always been driven by the concept of equal justice under the law, but only the rich can pay great sums of money for legal assistance and that puts them at an advantage over the poor.

The first thing to recognize not just about Afghanistan but about any poor undeveloped country is that as big as it looks on the map, it's much bigger when you're there.

I have a question, a question for the president: Do you hate all rich people, or just rich people who don't contribute to your campaign? Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?

I'm from Naples. I was born in a poor neighborhood and I always, in my heart, felt like it would be amazing to be able to adopt a child from Naples. I could give someone the opportunity I had. I would love to give back in that way and pay it forward.

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

Making the best of things is... a damn poor way of dealing with them. My whole life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand.

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

The Bio-diversity Convention has not yielded any tangible benefits to the world's poor.

The circulating medium being issued only by those who labor, they would suddenly become invested with all the wealth and all the power; and those who did not labor, be they ever so rich now, would as suddenly become poor and powerless.

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.

The revolution in Russia was victorious with the help of the poor peasants. This should always be borne in mind here in Western Europe and all the world over. But the workers in Western Europe stand alone: this should never be forgotten in Russia.

The food industry profits from providing poor quality foods with poor nutritional value that people eat a lot of.

After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest could speak out for the poor, as canon law at that time still permitted.

I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it.

The shock caused by the September 11 events has also lead to a thorough reflection on the existing disparity between rich and poor countries, on the misery of populations of the South.

Christians should emphatically be campaigning for justice for the poor - but the Church is not a campaign.