Top 1200 Poor Richard Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Every time you hear that the majority of Democratic candidates go on stage, they say poor women of color need access to abortion. I was born to a poor woman of color. I was a poor woman of color when I gave birth to my children. Who's to say that their lives are worth any less than others?

I’m concerned about the fact there seems to be a war on the poor - that if you’re poor, somehow you’re shiftless and lazy.

Not all of those who cry 'The poor, the poor!' will enter the kingdom of heaven.

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

Born poor, but of honored and humble people, I am particularly proud to die poor.

Poor people want to be poor; if they just worked harder they could have more.

Let us remember there is not a poor person in the United States who was not made poor by his own shortcomings.

As usual, in every scheme that worsens the position of the poor, it is the poor who are invoked as beneficiaries.

I am not poor. Poor are those who desire many things.

Poor parenting may be reflected in poor sibling relationships.

To be born poor is not our fault, but to die poor is crime

If you've ever really been poor, you remain poor at heart all your life.

They [Harvard academia] liked the poor, but didn't like the smell of the poor.

I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.

Giving a poor person money keeps them poor.

You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.

Whose fault is it if poor Ireland still continues poor?

Oh, how I would like a poor Church, and for the poor.

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I want them poor and they deserve to be poor. You can't have capitalism without punishment.

There are 500,000 poor children in this state that did not choose to be poor, and we have to take care of them.

America's vast population of working poor can only get so poor before even Walmart is out of reach.

If the poor ever feel poor as the rich do, we will have a most bloody revolution.

Poor people make a very poor business of it when they try to seem rich.

Immigration, a lexicon. You're a 'migrant' when you're very poor; 'immigrant' when you're not so poor; and 'expat' when you're rich.

One of the reasons inequality gets so deep in this country is that everyone wants to be rich. That's the American ideal. Poor people don't like talking about poverty because even though they might live in the projects surrounded by other poor people and have, like, ten dollars in the bank they don't like to think of themselves as poor.

We need to accept the principle that sometimes poor people will die just because they are poor.

When the government sees a poor area, its solution is to move the poor out.

Too many veterans are poor or near poor and homeless because of it.

Since Day 1, we have maintained that ours is a Government dedicated to the poor and will continue to work dedicatedly for the welfare of the poor.

I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.

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

Zef is, you're poor, but you're fancy. You're poor, but you're sexy; you've got style.

The poor is the center of the Gospel. If we take out the poor, we cannot understand the message of Christ

My only aim is the welfare of the poor of my country and the poor of states like Uttar Pradesh.

Our legal system, including the police, is anti-Dalit and anti-poor. The death penalty laws' wrathful majesty, in blood-shot equality, deals the fatal blow on the poor not the rich, the pariah not the brahmin, the black not the white, the underdog not the top dog, the dissenter not the conformist. . . The law barks at all but bites only the poor, the powerless, the illiterate, the ignorant.

My parents and I were all afraid of being poor - really poor.

If you were born poor, it's not your fault. But if you die poor it is.

Welfare now erodes work and family and thus keeps poor people poor. Accompanying welfare is an ideology - sustaining a whole system of federal and state bureaucracies - that also operates to destroy their faith. The ideology takes the form of false theories of discrimination and spurious claims of racism and sexism as the dominant forces in the lives of the poor.

In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.

America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves.

Poor planning or poor execution of plans is simply to let some force other than reason shape reality.

Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.

Public policy today is favoring the rich, not the poor. It's not addressing the needs of the poor.

When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will

In Canada, we just have rich and poor, but we don't constantly remind poor people about it.

What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating

To be poor, and to seem poor, is a certain method never to rise.

The poor are an especially important resource for innovation when they have the bravery and pluck to get out of the poor places in which they're living.

The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.

There is no country on earth that has done more for our own poor and for the poor around the world. We are not the ones that need to be targeted.

If you feed the poor, you're a saint. If you ask why they're poor, you're a Communist.

The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.

What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating.

I'm not sticking up for white kids - I'm going to have a barrage of hate mail - but it's true. If you're poor, you're really poor.

One of the reasons inequality gets so deep in this country is that everyone wants to be rich. That's the American ideal. Poor people don't like talking about poverty because even though they might live in the projects surrounded by other poor people and have, like, ten dollars in the bank, they don't like to think of themselves as poor.

Growing up, I was poor. In college, I was poor. I never had anything.

I understand that people might be poor if they don't have any work, but I don't accept that someone is poor if they've worked really hard.

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

That was always my experience-a poor boy in a rich town; a poor boy in a rich boy's school; a poor boy in a rich man's club at Princeton .... However, I have never been able to forgive the rich for being rich, and it has colored my entire life and works.