Poor Quotes

All life is interrelated, and all men are interdependent. The agony of the poor diminishes the rich, and the salvation of the poor enlarges the rich.

The wealthy nations must go all out to bridge the gulf between the rich minority and the poor majority.

The poor in our countries have been shut out of our minds, and driven from the mainstream of our societies, because we have allowed them to become invisible.

All too many of those who live in affluent America ignore those who exist in poor America.

Everybody is on welfare in this country. The problem is that we all to often have socialism for the rich and rugged free enterprise capitalism for the poor.

To this day the white poor also suffer deprivation and the humiliation of poverty if not of color.

To this day the white poor also suffer deprivation and the humiliation of poverty if not of color. They are chained by the weight of discrimination, though its badge of degradation does not mark them. It corrupts their lives, frustrates their opportunities and withers their education. In one sense it is more evil for them, because it has confused so many by prejudice that they have supported their own oppressors.

It is a simple matter of justice that America, in dealing creatively with the task of raising the Negro from backwardness, should also be rescuing a large stratum of the forgotten white poor.

The radical King was a democratic socialist who sided with poor and working people in the class struggle taking place in capitalist societies.

Logic is a poor guide compared with custom.

They have money for war but can't feed the poor.

The ground is the symbol for the poor people; the poor people is gonna open up this whole world and swallow up the rich people. It's gonna be like - there might be some cannibalism out this mother. They might eat the rich.

They gave me star treatment because I was making a lot of money. But I was just as good when I was poor.

I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I'm not ashamed of anything.

Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn't say I lived in a ghetto; I'd say I lived in the 'hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now.

I don't care if you're black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor. If you're nice to me, I'll be nice to you. Simple as that.

Poor is the man whose pleasure depends on the permission of another.

Some people think Bob is a poor man's Bruce Springsteen, but personally I always thought Bruce was the rich man's Bob Seger. Love 'em both, though.

Right now, America is in a state of upheaval. Poverty is demoralizing. You can't expect people to have the virtue of purity when they are poor. But we've got this guy there now who is redefining what a politician is, so we'll have to see how things play out. Am I hopeful? Yes, I'm hopeful that things might change. Some things are going to have to.

One of my big things is that I wish to be a fisherman. I know it sounds silly ​and I'd sooner be rich than poor, and all the rest of that... but I wish the pain was ignorance or bliss or something.