The Poor Quotes

... our interests and our conscience compel us to act on behalf of those who long for freedom. And we must be a source of hope to the poor, the sick, the marginalized, the victims of prejudice.

What is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

Poverty calls us to sow hope.... Poverty is the flesh of the poor Jesus, in that child who is hungry, in the one who is sick, in those unjust social structures.

With eye upraised his master's look to scan, The joy, the solace, and the aid of man: The rich man's guardian and the poor man's friend, The only creature faithful to the end.

If the devil went about doing a tenth of what he is accused of doing he would be poor from paying the blacksmith for ox-shoes for his hooves.

When we are generous in welcoming people and sharing something with them-some food, a place in our homes, our time-not only do we no longer remain poor: we are enriched.

Give me simplicity, that I may live, So live and like, that I may know Thy ways, Know them and practise them: then shall I give For this poor wreath, give Thee a crown of praise.

Obama came in and gave $700 billion to the bankers off the top as opposed to giving $700 billion to the poor.

My parents were very poor, but we never felt any sense of need or want. It was a very close, loving, tightly-knit family growing up, and I never felt any sense of deprivation or anything like that.

Doubt may be a poor encouragement to do anything, but it is a bad reason for doing nothing.

It is untrue that some are poor because others are rich. If an order of society in which incomes were equal replaced the capitalist order, everyone would become poorer.

You were never poor as long as you had something to love.

His purity was too great, his aspiration too high for this poor, miserable world! His great soul is now only enjoying that for which it was worthy!

If we judged by realities we should give honor not to the rich for the fine clothes they wear but to the poor who are the makers of such things.

Poor George [Bush], he can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.

To see those babies with no food for three of four days, old people sitting in the hot sun, when you see these poor people, you cannot help but being compassionate or affected.

Every poor designer can go with things that are popular at the moment.

There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor.

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.

The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.

The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor.

FORMA PAUPERIS. [Latin] In the character of a poor person - a method by which a litigant without money for lawyers is considerately permitted to lose his case.

We must show charity towards the sick, who are in greater need of help. Let us take them some small gift if they are poor, or, at least let us go and wait on them and comfort them.

Rich people invest money and poor people spend it.

A student will send me an urgent appeal to hear her, saying she is poor and wants my advice as to whether it is worth while to continue her studies. I invariably refuse such requests.

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.

My parents were so poor when I was a kid, I never went anywhere. I take our youngsters with us because I don't know anything that teaches them so much.

I'm basically a cocktail jazz kind of pianist. I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a very good keyboard player. People think I think I'm good. I think I'm a very poor piano player.

I was born a poor black child.

I think I'm a very poor piano player.

There is a graveyard in my poor heart - dark, heaped-up graves, from which no flowers spring.

A welfare state is frightened of every poor person who tries to get in and every rich person who tries to get out.

Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.

I was from a poor Jewish family in the South Bronx. My father was a plumber, but when I was 16, he got sick and I had to take over. Being a plumber in the South Bronx wasn't fun.

While the poor and middle class fight for us in Afghanistan, and while most Americans struggle to make ends meet, we mega-rich continue to get our extraordinary tax breaks.

Some people think that poor people are lazy. Actually, it takes a lot of work to survive when you are dirt-poor.

...poor people are just as human as anyone else. They have just as much potential as anyone.

Music is the poor man's Parnassus.

My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.

If the poor boy cannot come to education, education must go to him

Rich people manage their money well. Poor people mismanage their money well.

Rich or poor, we are to “do what we can” when others are in need.

To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.

Beef also was difficult to be procured and exceedingly poor; the price nearly sixpence farthing per pound.

These dust storms.... Poor farmer spent a lifetime fixin' his farm and everything, goes out and looks down at it, and it's up above him.

A very little familiarity with the poor districts of any city is sufficient to show how primitive and genuine are the neighborly relations.

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

Poor Kate,"said Constance,"she's lost her marbles.

The United States of America is the richest country in the world; yet we're the worst at taking care of poor people.

Worries are the most stubborn habits in the world. Even after a poor man has won a huge lottery prize, he will still for months wake up in the night with a start, worrying about food and rent.