Truly, I've learned more theology living in poor neighborhoods than in classrooms. At times I wonder if the questions of traditional theology have any meaning for the poor. And "the poor" here mean eighty percent of the population! (Ivone Gebara, p. ...
One of the reasons inequality gets so deep in this country is that everyone wants to be rich. That's the American ideal. Poor people don't like talking about poverty because even though they might live in the projects surrounded by other poor people ...
I'm not one that believes that affirmative action should be based on one's skin color or one's gender, I think it should be done based on one's need, because I think if you are from a poor white community, I think that poor white kid needs a scholars...
Poverty is a result of poor choices not of poor luck
Not all of those who cry 'The poor, the poor!' will enter the kingdom of heaven.
Oh, how I would like a poor Church, and for the poor.
I want to live like a poor man with lots of money.
A society which has poor people on its streets is a failed society!
Poor people do not go on holiday; they go home.
The food industry profits from providing poor quality foods with poor nutritional value that people eat a lot of.
The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.
Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.
Bill Cosby is a famous black guy who has a bully pulpit the size of the world; it's global. He puts his colossal foot on the vulnerable necks of poor people, and as a result of that, we don't have a balanced conversation.
The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them.
They [Harvard academia] liked the poor, but didn't like the smell of the poor.
It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.
You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.
Poor people put a low value on themselves and their efforts.
Angry poor people are 'enraged.' Angry rich people are 'livid.
I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over.
They explained to me that the bank cannot lend money to poor people because these people are not creditworthy.
