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Poor People Quotes (page 3)

I think the point about ActionAid is what it's asking people to do is engage with poor people in developing countries and understand what their lives are like and understand how the way we live our lives impacts on theirs. Emma Thompson
Muhammad Yunus quote: "They explained to me that the bank cannot lend money to poor..."
They explained to me that the bank cannot lend money to poor people because these people are not creditworthy. Muhammad Yunus
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. Wendie Malick
Norm MacDonald quote: "I think clever people think that poor people are stupid."
I think clever people think that poor people are stupid. Norm MacDonald
We need to make sure middle-class people are able to pay the bills. We need to make sure that poor people don't starve. Those are values, too. Charles Schumer
Jean-Paul Sartre quote: "When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are..."
When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die. Jean-Paul Sartre
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. Geraldo Rivera
In my opinion, the Republican Party is the last on the list to care about the needs of old people and children and poor people. Rickie Lee Jones
Yet is Dixon certain, as certain as the lightness he feels now, lightness premonitory of Flying, that far worse happen’d here, to these poor People, as the blood flew and the Children cried, - that at the end no one understood what they said as they died. Thomas Pynchon
So said Hair-Face, and they killed him, because, they said, he was a wild man and wanted to go back and live in a tree. It was very strange. Whenever a man arose and wanted to go forward all those that stood still said he went backward and should be killed. And the poor people helped stone him, and were fools. We were all fools, except those who were fat and did no work. The fools were called wise, and the wise were stoned. Men who worked did not get enough to eat, and the men who did... Jack London
And one day we must ask the question, "Why are there forty million poor people in America?" And when you begin to ask that question, you are raising questions about the economic system, about a broader distribution of wealth. When you ask that question, you begin to question the capitalistic economy. Martin Luther King jr.
Paul Farmer quote: "It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people..."
It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country. Paul Farmer
John Steinbeck quote: "If you're in trouble or hurt or need–go to poor people...."
If you're in trouble or hurt or need–go to poor people. They're the only ones that'll help–the only ones. John Steinbeck
More about Howl? Sophie thought desperately. I have to blacken his name! Her mind was such a blank that for a second it actually seemed to her that Howl had no faults at all. How stupid! 'Well, he's fickle, careless, selfish, and hysterical,' she said. 'Half the time I think he doesn't care what happens to anyone as long as he's alright--but then I find out how awfully kind he's been to someone. Then I think he's kind just when it suits him--only then I find out he undercharges poor people. I... Diana Wynne Jones
Jean-Jacques Rousseau quote: "We must powder our wigs; that is why so many poor people have..."
We must powder our wigs; that is why so many poor people have no bread. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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