Poor People Quotes - Page 10

• America is divided by economics, and we as Americans, we've got to do a better job of supporting poor people.

  Charles Barkley

  Jobs, America, People

  The CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. August 26, 2008.

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• If we have learned anything in the past ten years, it is that these lovely things about America were never lovely. We have been expansionist and aggressive and mean to other people from the beginning. And we've been aggressive and mean to people in this country, and we've allocated the wealth of this country in a very unjust way. We've never had justice in our courts for the poor people, for black people, for radicals. Now how can we boast that America is a very special place? It's not that special. It really isn't.

  Howard Zinn

  Country, Mean, Past

  "The Problem is Civil Obedience". www.thirdworldtraveler.com. 1970.

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• I've not given them (the poor people of Bihar) heaven, but I've given them a voice.

  Lalu Prasad Yadav

  Voice, People, Heaven

  Mid Day, February 09, 2005.

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• With the more endowed nations constrained by their own higher technological capacity for self-destruction as well as by self interest, war may have become a luxury that only the poor peoples of this world can afford.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  War, Luxury, Self

  Zbigniew Brzezinski (2007). “The Grand Chessboard”, p.199, Basic Books

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• The problem is not just affirmative action, though. The problem is poor people, working people and their children, and affirmative action for the most part doesn't even apply to them.

  Cornel West

  Children, People, Action

  "Cornel West Reconsiders President Obama". "Talk of the Nation" with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. August 2, 2010.

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• They explained to me that the bank cannot lend money to poor people because these people are not creditworthy.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Money, People, Bankers

  "Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the World’s Poorest Citizens, Makes His Case". Interview with Linda O’Bryon, knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu. March 9, 2005.

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• 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.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Creativity, Opportunity, Order

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• 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.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Feet, People, Bully

  "Dyson, Merida React to 'Come On, People'". Interview with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. October 16, 2007.

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• You shout and the valleys shout, or you sing and the valleys sing. Each heart is a valley. If you pour love into it, it will respond. The first lesson of love is not to ask for love, but just to give. Become a giver. And people are doing just the opposite. Even when they give, they give only with the idea that love should come back. It is a bargain. They don't share, they don't share freely. They share with a condition. They go on watching out of the corner of their eye whether it is coming back or not. Very poor people... they don't know the natural functioning of love.

  Rajneesh

  Love, Eye, Heart

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• In situations of sparse resources along with degraded self-images and depoliticized sensibilities, one avenue for poor people is in existential rebellion and anarchic expression. The capacity to produce social chaos is the last resort of desperate people.

  Cornel West

  Expression, Self, People

  Cornel West (1999). “The Cornel West Reader”, p.272, Basic Books

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• We've got the wrong vision, the wrong values, the wrong priority, and as the great prophetic figure Marian Edelman Wright puts it, we have been AWOL when it comes to poor people and poor children.

  Cornel West

  Children, People, Priorities

  "Cornel West Reconsiders President Obama". "Talk of the Nation" with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. August 2, 2010.

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• Viva Italia! Goodbye to all poor peoples everywhere! ... Pusha da button!

  Giuseppe Zangara

  Goodbye, Buttons, Viva

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• There is no more compassionate and effective way to help poor people in New York City than to give to Robin Hood.

  Paul Tudor Jones

  New York, Cities, People

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• Ours is not a poor country and even though we are now a poor people, there should be no room for the despondency that has settled on large sections of the population.

  John Kufuor

  Country, People, Population

  John Agyekum Kufuor (2001*). “Towards a golden age of business: selected speeches of H. E. Mr. John Agyekum Kufuor, January-December, 2001”

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• Nature still obstinately refuses to co-operate by making the rich people innately superior to the poor people.

  Beatrice Webb

  People, Wealth, Rich

  Sidney Webb, Beatrice Potter Webb (1923). “The Decay of Capitalist Civilisation”

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• We who are rich are often demanding and difficult. We shut ourselves up in our apartments and may even use a watchdog to defend our property. Poor people, of course, have nothing to defend and often share the little they have. When people have all the material things they need, they seem not to need each other. They are self-sufficient. There is no interdependence. There is no love.

  Jean Vanier

  Self, People, Needs

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• I am from the poor people; I represent the poor people. I like workers. I like people that suffer because these people have a different approach to life from the people that have everything and don't know what suffering is.

  Roberto Clemente

  People, Suffering, Different

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• Listen to the lyrics - we're singing about everyday life: rich people trying to keep money, poor people tying to get it, and everyone having trouble with their husband or wife!

  Buddy Guy

  Husband, People, Wife

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• Sure must be a great consolation to the poor people who lost their stock in the late crash to know that it has fallen in the hands of Mr. Rockefeller, who will take care of it and see that it has a good home and never be allowed to wander around unprotected again. There is one rule that works in every calamity. Be it pestilence, war or famine, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. The poor even help arrange it.

  Will Rogers

  Business, War, Home

  Will Rogers (1978). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Coolidge years, 1926-1929”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• John Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath' also speaks urgently to today's concerns: the cratered trail of dreams for Mexican immigrants seeking a promised land in the Western [United States]; the perfidy of banks in foreclosing on poor people's homes; and the insurgent urge of the book's protagonist, Tom Joad, to speak truth to police power. 'Wherever there's a cop beatin' up a guy,' Tom promises, 'I'll be there.' In Salinas, Calif., Ferguson, Mo., or Staten Island, N.Y., Tom's truth goes marching on.

  Richard Corliss

  Dream, Book, Home

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• The violence that we had in the 60's was limited. The next time it will be unlimited because the violence in the 60's was a struggle for human dignity and for human rights. The next struggle will be a struggle for survival and it will not just be limited to Black people or Black against white, but it will be the poor people, the masses of the people of the country, struggling for the right to live or the right to survive.

  Robert F. Williams

  Country, Struggle, White

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• Only poor people go to jail.

  Charles Barkley

  Jail, People, Poor

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• The great question for our time is, how to make sure that the continuing scientific revolution brings benefits to everybody rather than widening the gap between rich and poor. To lift up poor countries, and poor people in rich countries, from poverty, to give them a chance of a decent life, technology is not enough. Technology must be guided and driven by ethics if it is to do more than provide new toys for the rich.

  Freeman Dyson

  Country, Technology, Rich Countries

  "Progress In Religion". Freeman Dyson's Acceptance Speech for the Templeton Prize at the Washington National Cathedral, www.edge.org. May 16, 2000.

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• Poor people can be greedy, too. It's just that they don't have any material resources. We need shaping of the souls as well as shaping of our institutions.

  Cornel West

  People, Soul, Needs

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Martin Luther King Jr's agenda was not to help Negroes overcome American apartheid in the south. It was to make America democracy a better place, where everyday people, from poor people who were white and red and yellow and black and brown, would be able to live lives in decency and dignity.

  Cornel West

  Kings, Live Life, Yellow

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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