Those who are rich cannot see reasons for poor becoming poorer and those who are poor cannot see reasons for rich getting richer.
Of the 22 industrialized nations of the world, we're dead last in per capita giving to poor people.
In my experience, poor people are the world's greatest entrepreneurs. Every day, they must innovate in order to survive. They remain poor because they do not have the opportunities to turn their creativity into sustainable income.
Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny.
The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
I contend that, in spite of all that might be said about Watergate, Richard Nixon was good for the poor people of America.
You know the funny thing, I don't get along with rich people. I get along with the middle class and the poor people better than I get along with the rich people.
Somebody has been cashing checks, and they've been bouncing back on us. And these people, the poor class of Negroes and the poor class of white people, they're getting tired of it.
Being Christian towards poor people means trying to improve their lives and give them back some self-respect.
The rich will make temples for Siva. What shall I, a poor man, do? My legs are pillars, the body the shrine, the head the cupola of gold.
Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion.
There are no automatic links between poverty and terrorism. Among millions of poor people in the world, only a few turn to terrorism.
Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.
The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor.
Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.
Elwood P. Dowd: Wouldn't that get a little monotonous, just Akron, cold beer and 'poor, poor thing' for two weeks?
I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh.
Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low.
The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women.
Everyone is poor in one way or another, so there is no need to worry of where you belong, we are all rich and poor at the same time.
