Quotes About Poor

The Obama economy is great for rich people. It's terrible for everybody else.

By 2015, the top 1 percent of families took home more than 20 percent of income. Wealth distribution was 10 times worse than that: the families in the top 1 percent owned as much as the families in the bottom 90 percent.

If you can't sell your product, it goes from being an asset to a liability. Learn to sell, partner with someone who can sell, or learn to be poor.

Most people make poor partners because their mental script has a defect. They believe focus means looking after their own interests. It's a script error.

Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven" (Matthew 5:3).

Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.

He imagined he had saved his soul rather ingeniously. Commanded by the Gospel to sell all and give to the poor, he sold his estates, rendering himself destitute, then gave the purchase money, eleven barrels of gold, to himself.

We weave our excuses around events. Thin, poor quality cloth of justification Poor substitutes for the heavy tribal blankets Once we wove to wrap our children.

I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came from a very middle class family - poor, in fact.

Hip-hop is a voice for voiceless poor people.

Faulkner's 'As I Lay Dying' had an immense effect on me, and most of my novels bear the burn marks of this experience, those short chapters with their conflicting points of view, truth expressed by multiple perspectives. The other attractive thing about 'As I Lay Dying' was the way it gave rich voices to the poor.

Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.

September 1966. "I think that we've got to see that a riot is the language of the unheard. And, what is it that America has failed to hear? It has failed to hear that the economic plight of the Negro poor has worsened over the last few years.

Such hysteria was fomented, Wright noted, by appeals to poor whites for whom color was everything since they had nothing else.

Our joint plan was to be poor and obscure and pure and take the world by surprise at a later date.

A balancing act of equally unlikely options was the only answer that the city and the nation gave to the requests of these poor people. This juggling of options—in this instance, countering school-funding efforts with the need for preschool—does no good if neither of these options is to be enacted anyway and if the act of balancing only serves to guarantee our permanent inaction in both areas.

I do not allow myself to suppose that either the convention or the League have concluded to decide that I am either the greatest or best man in America, but rather they have concluded that it is not best to swap horses while crossing the river, and have further concluded that I am not so poor a horse that they might not make a botch of it in trying to swap.

The poorest in America are the sickets. Poor people can't afford preventive care or insurance. The poor don't see doctors. They show up at our doorstep when things are advanced.

So Medicare decided to pay hospitals like ours for internship and residency training programs, get it? It's a win-win, as they say—the hospital gets patients cared for by interns and residents around the clock,people like us who live on site, and whose stipend is a bloody fraction of what the hospital would pay full-time physicians. And Medicare delivers health care to the poor.

Why didn't God do anything to stop it? Here is God's answer: "I did do something. I sent Jesus to be the light so you could see what to do. He came to bring good news to the poor, to set the prisoners free, and to unfasten every yoke that burdens your fellow children and holds them down.

Wherever there is great property there is great inequality. For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor, and the affluence of the few supposes the indigence of the many. The affluence of the rich excites the indignation of the poor, who are often both driven by want, and prompted by envy, to invade his possessions.

24If you lend money to My people, to the poor among you, do not act toward them as a creditor; exact no interest from them.

Money makes people bold and cosmopolitan; if you are poor, you are naturally conservative. It's not easy to be a bohemian when you have to worry about what is going to happen with you and with your next paycheck.

Oligarchy: A government resting on a valuation of property, in which the rich have power and the poor man is deprived of it.