Poor People Quotes - Page 15

• What you must understand is oppression does not end with the niggers. It does not end with the poor people, it doesn't end with the women, or the pregnant women. It goes on up the line to the executive who has his bag searched in the airport.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Airports, People, Doe

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• If we wanted a program to help the majority of the population, we'd offer loan guarantees to help poor people get access to reliable cars so that they could have a better shot at getting - and keeping - a well-paying job...A small amount of capital could make a much bigger difference in their lives than extra student loan relief for middle-class college kids would.

  Megan McArdle

  Education, Money, Jobs

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• Congress is thinking about eliminating a federal program under which scientists broadcast signals to Alien beings. This would be a large mistake. Alien beings have atomic blaster death cannons. You cannot cut off their federal programs as if they were merely poor people.

  Dave Barry

  Mistake, Cutting, Thinking

  "Dave Barry's Bad Habits". Book by Dave Barry, September 15, 1993.

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• Yes, the South-becoming always poorer-and the North-becoming always richer ...Richer, too in the resources of weapons with which the superpowers and blocs can mutually threaten each other. In the light of Christ's words (Mt. 25), this poor South will judge the rich North. And the poor people and poor nations-poor in different ways, not only lacking food, but also deprived of freedom and other human right-will judge those people who take these goods away from them, amassing to themselves the imperialist monopoly and political supremacy at the expense of others.

  Pope John Paul II

  Light, Judging, People

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• The issue of world environment has a special kind of urgency... The issue is one of rich peoples and poor peoples, of the growing gap between the two, and of the rich fouling their own nests.

  Gilbert F. White

  Two, Issues, Special

  Gilbert F. White (1986). “Geography, Resources and Environment, Volume 1: Selected Writings of Gilbert F. White”, p.289, University of Chicago Press

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• Look how the world's poor people are amazed at apparitions, signs and prodigies!

  William Shakespeare

  People, Looks, World

  William Shakespeare (1866). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.470

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• Technologies, including cell phones, have the potential to help millions of poor people out of poverty by enabling access to a range of safe, affordable financial services - most importantly, savings accounts - that have long been out of reach.

  Sylvia Mathews Burwell

  Technology, Phones, Cells

  "Banking on Savings for the Poor" by Sylvia Mathews Burwell, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 11, 2010.

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• If you look at the world's top 50 drugs being sold today, they are being marketed and sold by companies that did not invent them. I respect patents. I'll pay a royalty. But I shouldn't be denied the right to produce drugs for poor people at reasonable prices.

  Yusuf Hamied

  People, Drug, Patents

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• When a person is in a miserable situation, then, yes, it is difficult to develop genuine compassion toward others. That's why I find it difficult to say to poor people, "Please have compassion toward millionaires." That's not easy.

  Dalai Lama

  Compassion, People, Miserable

  Source: www.worldreligionnews.com

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• Jesus said when the woman poured the alabaster bottle of perfume on him that was worth almost a year's wages, and Judas, who was very money-minded, said you shouldn't have done that, because you're wasting that, we could have sold that and given it to the poor. And Jesus himself said, you will always have the poor with you, but she has done this as an honor to me, and she will be honored for it all of her days. And so you never run out of poor people. You could give everything you had, I could give everything I had, and the world would still be full of poor people.

  Joyce Meyer

  Running, Jesus, Years

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• We grew up as poor people but we never knew poverty. I still love and miss the Somalia I grew up in. Things changed, when my father became a diplomat later on.

  Iman Abdulmajid

  Father, People, Missing

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• When I was growing up, you were supposed to marry and therefore didn't plan ahead. Planning ahead is one of the few reliable measures of class in the sense that rich people plan for generations forward and poor people plan for Saturday night, and by that measure, women have been lower class. We were less likely to plan ahead because we're more likely to think that who we marry and our children are going to dictate our plans.

  Gloria Steinem

  Growing Up, Children, Night

  Interview with Maria Shriver, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 11, 2011.

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• Of all the myriads of God, Daridranarayana is the most sacred inasmuch as it represents the untold millions of the poor people as distinguished from the few rich people.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, People, Sacred

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

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• Reaganomics, that makes sense to me. It means if you don't have enough money, it's just because poor people are hoarding it.

  Kevin Rooney

  Funny, Mean, People

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• Most poor people I know are proud and really want not a handout but a hand up. They do have an inherent pride and dignity, and we should treat them as those who have fallen on bad days.

  Desmond Tutu

  Bad Day, Pride, Hands

  Source: stuart-coleman.com

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• There are three dominant tendencies in a neoliberal society: financialized, privatized, militarized. And when it comes to black poor people, we get all three.

  Cornel West

  People, Black, Three

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you want to be rich watch what rich people do everyday and do it. And watch what poor people do and don't do it.

  Les Brown

  People, Everyday, Watches

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• You buy a car or any other thing when you see someone else having it. So people will only buy a thing when they see a system in somebody's house and that takes time. The corporate people have taken the poor people for a ride. So that needs to break and the trust needs to be created that this system will actually work.

  Ramon Magsaysay

  Taken, Car, People

  Source: themanipaljournal.com

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• I love rich people. Any time I needed a job, I went to a rich person. I like poor people, but they never had a job for me.

  Roger Ailes

  Jobs, People, Rich

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• Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny.

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball, Education, Sports

  "How to Get More Value Out of Your Education" by John Rampton, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 14, 2013.

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• You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course.

  Jello Biafra

  Football, Golf, People

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• A calling is you feel - you look out and see the need - maybe it's the need for the poor, to help poor people. Maybe it's the need to get involved in the race problem, as Martin Luther King was - felt called.

  Billy Graham

  Kings, Race, People

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• Institutions work this way. A son is murdered by the police, and nothing is done. The institutions send the victim's family on a merry-go-round, going from one agency to another, until they wear out and give up. this is a very effective way to beat down poor and oppressed people, who do not have the time to prosecute their cases. Time is money to poor people. To go to Sacramento means loss of a day's pay - often a loss of job. If this is a democracy, obviously it is a bourgeois democracy limited to the middle and upper classes. Only they can afford to participate in it.

  Huey Newton

  Jobs, Giving Up, Mean

  Huey P. Newton (2009). “Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.128, Penguin

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• Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out.

  Harry Browne

  Country, People, Going Out

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• I think clever people think that poor people are stupid.

  Norm MacDonald

  Clever, Stupid, Thinking

  "Norm MacDonald Has No Problem Paying O.J. Simpson Under the Table". Interview with Abram Sauer, www.esquire.com. April 12, 2011.

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