Poorest Quotes - Page 6

• The poorest man in the world is a man without a dream.

  Myles Munroe

  Dream, Men, World

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• The poorest person is not one without a dollar but one without a dream.

  Catherine DeVrye

  Dream, Motivation, Dollars

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• I want you to understand that I respect the rights of the poorest and weakest of colored people, oppressed by the slave system, just as much as I do those of the most wealthy and powerful. That is the idea that has moved me, and that alone.

  John Brown

  Powerful, Rights, Ideas

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• Paul Farmer has helped to build amazing health care system in one of the poorest areas of Haiti. He founded Partners in Health, which serves the destitute and the sick in many parts of the world from Haiti to Boston and from Russia to Peru.

  Tracy Kidder

  Russia, Boston, Sick

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• Anarchism aims to strip labor of its deadening, dulling aspect, of its gloom and compulsion. It aims to make work an instrument of joy, of strength, of color, of real harmony, so that the poorest sort of a man should find in work both recreation and hope.

  Emma Goldman

  Real, Men, Color

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.34, 谷月社

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• Capitalism has been called a system of greed—yet it is the system that raised the standard of living of its poorest citizens to heights no collectivist system has ever begun to equal, and no tribal gang can conceive of.

  Ayn Rand

  Greed, Citizens, Height

  Ayn Rand (1999). “The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution”, p.167, Penguin

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• Humility makes a man richer than other men, and it makes a man judge himself the poorest among men.

  Thomas Brooks

  Humility, Men, Judging

  Thomas Brooks (1824). “The select works of ... Thomas Brooks”, p.461

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• Mercy Corps' partnership with The Hunger Site translates into lifesaving assistance for people in tremendous need around the world. When you visit, click, and shop at this unique site, you're making the future a little brighter for families who need food in the world's poorest places.

  Dan O'Neill

  Unique, People, Needs

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• AIDS destroys families, decimates communities and, particularly in the poorest areas of the world, threatens to destabilize the social, cultural, and economic fabric of entire nations.

  David Saperstein

  Community, Fabric, World

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• When combined with information and communication technologies, microcredit can unleash new opportunities for the world's poorest entrepreneurs and thereby revitalize the village economies they serve.

  Madeleine Albright

  Communication, Technology, Opportunity

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• Jesus was the poorest of the poor. Roman Catholicism, which claims to be His church, is the richest of the rich, the wealthiest institution on earth. () How come, that such an institution, ruling in the name of this same itinerant preacher, whose want was such that he had not even a pillow upon which to rest his head, is now so top-heavy with riches that she can rival - indeed, that she can put to shame - the combined might of the most redoubtable financial trusts, of the most potent industrial super-giants, and of the most prosperous global corporation of the world?

  Avro Manhattan

  Jesus, Names, Church

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• The greatness and efficacy of a magician is measured by his refusal to use magic. The true magician, the greatest, is the poorest and most unfortunate of all mortals. Because between his magic and his person forgetfulness takes shape, in the form of the world.

  Cesar Aira

  Greatness, Magic, Use

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• The poorest of the poor are those who feel that they are unloved.

  Mother Teresa

  Poor, Feels, Unloved

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• The extermination of millions of unborn children, in the name of the fight against poverty, actually constitutes the destruction of the poorest of all human beings.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Children, Fighting, Names

  Pope Benedict XVI (2014). “The Garden of God”, p.163, CUA Press

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• The poorest residents of the gulf coast were most affected by the devastating hurricanes, and the poorest Americans have shouldered a disproportionate share of the burden in Iraq.

  Marty Meehan

  Iraq, Hurricanes, Burden

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• The poorest experience is rich enough for all the purposes of expressing thought

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Purpose, Rich, Enough

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). “Emerson's Literary Criticism”, p.32, U of Nebraska Press

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• To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.

  Sallust

  Men, Seeking

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• From the poorest of countries to the richest of nations, education is the key to moving forward in any society.

  Nelson Mandela

  Country, Moving, Keys

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• In the poorest countries...it is women who are the key to breaking out of poverty...and preparing another generation for...leading their countries into real security.

  Queen Noor of Jordan

  Country, Real, Keys

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• It is when one begins to lose the consciousness of freedom, and when the idea of necessity enters the world at all, when there is any hurry or strain anywhere, a letter to be written or a train to catch, when you have got to work, to make the horses of the dream gallop, or to make the rifles go off, that the dream is declining, and turning into the nightmare, which belongs to the poorest and most vulgar class of dreams.

  Isak Dinesen

  Dream, Horse, Class

  Isak Dinesen (2001). “Out of Africa”, p.81, Penguin UK

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• Improving the health & productivity of the poorest is one of the best investments you can make in the future of the world

  Bill Gates

  World, Investment, Improving

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• Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings or drawings in the poorest cottages, in the dirtiest corners. And my mind is driven towards these things with an irresistible momentum.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Music, Drawing, Mind

  Letter to Theo from The Hague, July 21, 1882.

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• I wanted Yoda to be the traditional kind of character you find in fairy tales and mythology. And that character is usually a frog or a wizened old man on the side of the road. The hero is going down the road and meets this poor and insignificant person. The goal or lesson is for the hero to learn to respect everybody and to pay attention to the poorest person because that's where the key to his success will be.

  George Lucas

  Hero, Character, Men

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• America has made no reparation to the Vietnamese, nothing. We are the richest people in the world and they are among the poorest. We savaged them, though they had never hurt us, and we cannot find it in our hearts, our honor, to give them help-because the government of Vietnam is Communist. And perhaps because they won.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Hurt, War, Heart

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• The wealthiest 300 people have greater riches than the three billion poorest. The three wealthiest people have greater riches than the 48 poorest countries put together. With only limited environmental space to accommodate the expected 9 billion human inhabitants of the world by 2050, such disparities in consumption are clearly not sustainable

  Tony Juniper

  Country, Space, People

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