Top 1200 Poor Background Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Jesus himself, and most of the message of the Gospels, is a message of service to the poor, a critique of the rich and the powerful, and a pacifist doctrine. And it remained that way, that's what Christianity was up... until Constantine. :Constantine shifted it so the cross, which was the symbol of persecution of somebody working for the poor, was put on the shield of the Roman Empire. It became the symbol for violence and oppression, and that's pretty much what the church has been until the present.

Men whose only concern is other people's opinion of them are like actors who put on a poor performance to win the applause of people of poor taste; some of them would be capable of good acting in front of a good audience. A decent man plays his part to the best of his ability, regardless of the taste of the gallery.

My music has a very spiritual background, a sanctity that is almost like worship.

Our poor people are great people, a very lovable people, They don't need our pity and sympathy. They need our understanding love and they need our respect. We need to tell the poor that they are somebody to us that they, too, have been created, by the same loving hand of God, to love and be loved.

Today's terrorists do not share a particular ethnic, educational or socioeconomic background.

I came out of a background of want, but today I give glory to God.

The poor fatherless baby of eight months is now the utterly broken-hearted and crushed widow of forty-two! My life as a happy one is ended! the world is gone for me! If I must live on (and I will do nothing to make me worse than I am), it is henceforth for our poor fatherless children - for my unhappy country, which has lost all in losing him - and in only doing what I know and feel he would wish.

I am a committed observer. I like staying in the background and seeing what's going on.

The first time I went to Hollywood, I was 25 years old. My background was mostly Italian.

Once you know the background of an individual, you can connect better with his or her music.

I'm proud of my background, so I hope there will be more roles where Hispanics are being portrayed.

I come from a humble background, where my family was struggling to be called middle class.

In some cases, the casting directors have casted blindly and have not looked into my ethnic background.

My films are based on themes, so I always go for theme tracks and background score.

I want to establish myself as someone who can act and doesn't have to rely on my figure or modelling background.

Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life.

I come from a financial news background, originally, so that is a big area of focus for me.

With my background and genetic makeup,buddy, you're lucky I'm as normal as I am. (Katra Agrotera)

Yeah, it is particularly upsetting to be called, whatever it was, sneery, or a snob, given the background I have.

The job of the school is to teach so well that family background is no longer an issue.

The first miracle after the baptism of the Holy Ghost was wroughtly upon a beggar. It means that the first service of a Holy Ghost-baptized church is to the poor; that its ministry is to those who are lowest down; that its gifts are for those who need them the most. As the Spirit was upon Jesus to preach the gospel to the poor, so His Spirit is upon His servants for the same purpose.

I'm one of those people who would be OK with fading back into the background a little bit.

The point of decorating, as far as I can tell, is to create the background for the best life you can have.

My family has big business background, and I like to stay busy, too.

I was kind of an innocent hayseed from a middle-class, utterly nonintellectual background.

But I had a very traditional background as well. My parents are neat people.

Self-interest and mutual interest are inextricably linked. National interests can best be advanced through collective action, ... Calculate not just the human misery of the poor themselves. Calculate our loss: The aid, the lost opportunity to trade, the short-term consequences of the multiple conflicts; the long-term consequences on the attitude to the wealthy world of injustice and abject deprivation amongst the poor.

I come from a working class background, it wasn't easy for me at all, but I worked hard.

I was really nervous working with actors, since I come from a photography background.

My father was a teacher and my mother also worked in the school, so the family has a background in education.

A coach's role, effectively speaking, is to stay in the background and let the onus be on the players.

Very commonly substances are criminalized because they're associated with what's called the dangerous classes, you know, poor people, or working people.... Actually, the peak of marijuana use was as I said, in the seventies, but that was rich kids, so you don't throw them in jail. And then it got seriously criminalized, you know, you really throw people in jail for it, when it was poor people.

I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background.

I believe in the law. I think we have a great system of justice. But I do think that system of justice has been corrupted by racism and classism. I think it's difficult for 'poor people' - poor white people, brown people - to be treated fairly before the law in the same way that upper-class people are.

We urgently need a debate about the best ways of supporting families in modern America, without blinders that prevent us from seeing the full extent of dependence and interdependence in American life. As long as we pretend that only poor or abnormal families need outside assistance, we will shortchange poor families, overcompensate rich ones, and fail to come up with effective policies for helping families in the middle.

My training and ballet background definitely gives me the competitive edge on the ice.

Every institution places its ultimate weight on preserving its own life. That is why the Church emphasizes loving God over loving one's neighbor.... The push for justice on the other hand might be at the center of the Gospel but it also attacks the balance of power in the society. Since the rich always exploit the poor, to give the poor power, dignity and humanity makes them less pliable, less cooperative.

My mother was a teacher, my father was a community organizer. I come from a working class background.

I can move my characters through it easily, because I understand the background; I've really studied it.

My theatrical background was in the great work of the South African playwright Athol Fugard.

We don't realise how much the world has affected us. We put God in the background.

Music is my passion, singing, performing. I play piano and musical theater is my background.

I think the way country music is set up, we all came from a family background.

I come from a newspaper background, so maybe Im attuned to current events.

The revolution is carried out by means of one's thought, not through one's family background.

We had our British background of traditional theatre behind us.

The rich...should beg the poor to forgive us for the bread we bring them. Healthy people sometimes feel they need to beg forgiveness too, although there is no reason why. Maybe we simply ask forgiveness for not being born where these poor women have been born, knowing that if we lived here too, our fate might well have been the same.

It was very useful to learn the history, the theory, and the art of building from a practical background.

I have a background in dance, so I danced my entire life, since I was three years old.

I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.

It takes someone with a unique background to stand up to the threat of a strike and win.

My background in gymnastics, martial arts, and dancing has translated very well in the ring.

When I talk about the city, I talk about a city that elevates people, which is the strength of New York. We always had the ability to do that. We had the services to do that: good schools, living-wage jobs. We're moving away from that toward a two-tiered system: a small group of very wealthy people and the rest of the city, poor and working poor.

Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.

By background I'm both a Quaker and a Yorkshireman, which I like to call double jeopardy.

I come from a theater background. I studied acting at NYU and also the Groundlings in L.A.

I always wanted to be on the radio. But my background is more entertainment than journalism.

I come from more of a sculptural background so I think of the form before anything else.

I'm a scrappy outsider from Boston, so didn't have a privileged background at all like many in business.

When I was a youngster, I was brought up in a very political background on an estate in north London.