Poor People Quotes - Page 8

• Sleep is a most useful and most salutary operation of nature. Scarcely any minor annoyance angers me more than the being suddenly awakened out of a pleasant slumber. I understand that in Italy they torture poor people by depriving them of sleep. `Tis a torture that cannot long be endured.

  Martin Luther

  Sleep, Healing, Long

  Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.316

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• Conservatives are better talking about opportunity and growth in the abstract, while liberals talk more about poor people. Right now we [americans] need a good, optimistic, conservative opportunity ideology that is totally geared toward lifting up the poor. That's what I most want to see in candidates.

  Arthur C. Brooks

  Optimistic, Opportunity, Talking

  "Q&A: 'The Conservative Heart'" by Dana Perino, www.foxnews.com. July 29, 2015.

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• What used to be racial segregation now mirrors itself in class segregation, this great sorting (has) taken place. It creates its own politics. There are some communities where not only do I not know poor people, I don't even know people who have trouble paying the bills at the end of the month. I just don't know those people. And so there's less sense of investment in those children.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Taken, Mirrors

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• My empathy for poor people comes from having been one of them for so long, from knowing that their humanity is more complex and that the truths of their suffering have to be told honestly.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Knowing, Long, People

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• [The word class has] been excised from the acceptable political vocabulary, except in the limited usage of right-wingers when they accuse liberals of inciting 'class warfare' - a charge that means it's okay for rich people to vote their economic interests but it's not all right to encourage poor people to do so.

  Harry Shearer

  Mean, Vocabulary, Class

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• Rich people choose to get paid based on results. Poor people choose to get paid based on time.

  T. Harv Eker

  People, Rich, Poor

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• I really want to move to a country where the poor people are fat.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Country, Moving, People

  Dinesh D'Souza (2009). “Letters to a Young Conservative”, p.89, Basic Books

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• Creative new health strategies like micro-insurance for poor people or Kangaroo care for pre-term babies are transforming health outcomes in even the most low-resource settings. Dedication and innovation are transforming health care worldwide.

  Liya Kebede

  Baby, Dedication, People

  "Redefining “Impossible” When It Comes To Maternal Mortality" by Liya Kebede, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 21, 2010.

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• 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

  Children, Party, People

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• Politics doesn't work. Look at the parts of America where government has had the most power, where government has spent the most money. Look at the housing projects we've got the poor people in.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Government, America, People

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• 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

  Baby, People, Three

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• Grab your pig's feet, bread, and gin, there's plenty in the kitchen. I wonder what the poor people are eating tonight?

  Fats Waller

  Feet, Pigs, People

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• We might be on the brink of an apocalypse if, instead of poor people with suicide bombs killing middle class guys, middle-class people with suicide bombs started killing rich guys.

  Bruce Sterling

  Suicide, Class, People

  "Inside the Military-Entertainment Complex". Interview with Krystian Woznicki, www.heise.de. June 16, 2002.

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• Buy less. Choose well. Make it last. Quality, not quantity. Everybody’s buying far too many clothesI mean, I know I’m lucky, I can just take things and borrow them and I’m just okay, but I hate having too many clothes. And I think that poor people should be even more careful. It doesn't mean therefore you have to just buy anything cheap. Instead of buying six things, buy one thing that you really like. Don't keep buying just for the sake of it.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Hate, Mean, Thinking

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• How impossible it is for us to imagine ourselves victims of disaster. We suffer for the poor people who were thrown into the sea from their cruise ship off the coast of Tuscany, some losing their lives. Imagine a world of accelerating natural disasters, one after the other so that nobody can help anyone else.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Sea, People, Suffering

  Vivienne Westwood (2016). “Get a Life: The Diaries of Vivienne Westwood”, p.60, Serpent's Tail

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• It's survival of the fittest. You can't have everything perfect, that's impossible, but the fit survive. The fit can handle the impurities in the air and in the water, but the poor people who are sick, it really affects them more.

  Jack LaLanne

  Air, People, Perfect

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• I worshipped money so much that it ruined my life. Money is not my god. I just want to manage His money for Him, for the poor people, the lost kids. I just love everybody.

  Brian Welch

  Lost Love, Kids, People

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• My idea for peace in the Middle East is to go back to the 1966 line, but to build even more houses for the Palestinians, who are a poor people.

  Frank Carson

  Ideas, People, House

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• IQ tests are routinely used as weapons against Black people in particular and minority groups and poor people generally. The tests are based on white middle-class standards, and when we score low on them, the results are used to justify the prejudice that we are inferior and unintelligent. Since we are taught to believe that the tests are infallible, they have become a self-fulfilling prophecy that cuts off our initiative and brainwashes us.

  Huey Newton

  Believe, Cutting, White

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• Rich people associate with positive, successful people. Poor people associate with negative or unsuccessful people.

  T. Harv Eker

  Successful, People, Negative

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• The greatest percentage of poverty is found in female-headed households. Over 70 percent of female-headed households are poor. A large percentage of poor people are children (17 percent); fully 85 percent of black children living in poverty reside in a female-headed household.

  Walter E. Williams

  Children, People, Black

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• We want to begin in working-class neighborhoods. We want to test the concept there, because our idea is that fair trade should not just be for the elites, but for everyone, for the majority, for the poor people. Quality food for poor people. Why just quality for the rich? And at an equal price

  Victor Suarez Melendez

  Class, Ideas, People

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• I've heard that the best way to help poor people is to make sure you don't become one of them

  Robin S

  People, Way, Helping

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• Rich people invest money and poor people spend it.

  Grant Cardone

  Money, People, Rich

  FaceBook post by Grant Cardone from Mar 25, 2017

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• Sometimes we are tempted to find excuses and complain, acting as if we could only be happy if a thousand conditions were met...I can say that the most beautiful and natural expressions of joy which I have seen in my life were in poor people who had little to hold on to.

  Pope Francis

  Beautiful, Expression, People

  "Evangelii Gaudium". Book by Pope Francis, w2.vatican.va. November 24, 2013.

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