Poor People Quotes

• Rich people play the money game to win. Poor people play the money game to not lose.

  T. Harv Eker

  Inspirational, Winning, Games

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Dec 13, 2009

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

  Muhammad Yunus

  People, Poor, Humans

  Twitter post from Nov 05, 2015

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• A society which has poor people on its streets is a failed society!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  People, Poor, Streets

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• I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, People, Giving

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

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• The greatest discrimination in the world now is against poor people.

  Jimmy Carter

  People, World, Discrimination

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• Poor people always lose in struggles.

  Michael Servetus

  Struggle, People, Poor

  "Ptolemy's Geography" edited by Michael Servetus, 1535.

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• I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Money, People

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

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• I know the struggles of poor people, and have always kept that with me.

  Dolly Parton

  Struggle, People, Poor

  "Q&A: Dolly Parton learned early that giving leads to getting". Interview with Chris Taylor, in.reuters.com. November 29, 2016.

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• If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.

  John Steinbeck

  Hurt, Adversity, Helping Others

  John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.303, Hamilton Books

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• I will continue to find ways to help poor people find a job, get a job, and learn someday to own the job.

  Newt Gingrich

  Jobs, People, Way

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• We need a better strategy for poor people...because what we're doing isn't working.

  Mick Cornett

  People, Needs, Strategy

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• Poor people are gross and they 'smell bad

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Smell, People, Poor

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• Rich people are poor people with money.

  George Orwell

  People, Rich, Poor

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• Rich people are excellent receivers. Poor people are poor receivers.

  T. Harv Eker

  People, Rich, Poor

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• The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Poverty, Honest, Never Forget

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• Poor people have been voting for Democrats for the last 50 years and they're still poor.

  Charles Barkley

  Years, People, Political

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• Poor people choose now. Rich people choose balance.

  T. Harv Eker

  Inspirational, People, Secret

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• In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.

  Andrew Young

  Intelligent, People, Moral

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• If poor people want food stamps, they should become massive corporations.

  Stephen Colbert

  People, Want, Corporations

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• If poor people knew how rich rich people are, there would be riots in the streets.

  Chris Rock

  People, Would Be, Rich

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• You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Giving Money, People, Libertarian

  P.J. O'Rourke (1991). “PARLIAMENT OF WHORES A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”

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• People don't like other poor people, and rather than blame the people that make you all poor, you blame each other.

  John Lydon

  People, Rotten, Blame

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• Poor people of all colors are getting poorer and our communities are getting more toxic. There is a misconception that to grow our economy we will have to do business as usual, because cleaning up the environment, mitigating climate change is just too costly. Well, I say the business of poverty is just too expensive a bill for humanity to pay any longer.

  Majora Carter

  Color, People, Community

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

  Unita Blackwell

  Country, America, People

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• When I go out in the morning and see these men standing in their queues and look into their pinched faces, then I believe I would be no Christian, but a very devil, if I felt no pity for them, if I did not, as did our Lord two thousand years ago, turn against those by whom today this poor people are plundered and exposed.

  Adolf Hitler

  Christian, Religious, Morning

  Adolf Hitler (1942). “The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922-August 1939: An English Translation of Representative Passages Arranged Under Subjects and Edited by Norman H. Baynes”

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