The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor.
It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.
I love nice things - I consider Ralph Lauren sheets to be a necessity, not a luxury - but I've known what it's like to be poor.
If you go to working class, and working poor areas of America, the food sources that are relegated to them are generally limited to unhealthy ones.
Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched.
It is the first duty of every man not to be poor.
Voting is a Constitutional right. Absent any evidence of fraud, all Americans have a protected right to vote, be they rich or poor, black, Hispanic or white, people who live in a big city or in remote rural areas.
God only, who made us rich, can make us poor.
Countries are poor not because their people are lazy; their people are 'lazy' because they are poor.
Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.
The world's fat is badly divided.
A shining city is perhaps all the president sees from the portico of the White House and the veranda of his ranch, where everyone seems to be doing well. But there's another part to the shining city. In this part of the city there are more poor than ever, more families in trouble, more and more people who need help but can't find it.
Why do some people have to go barefoot so that others can drive luxury cars? Why are some people able to live only 35 years in order that others can live 70 years? Why do some people have to be miserably poor in order that others can be extravagantly rich? I speak for all the children in the world who don't even have a piece of bread.
Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.
President Obama has pledged $3 billion to aid poor nations. All of that $3 billion is going to the United States.
With much we surfeit; plenty makes us poor.
Though very poor, may still be very blest.
When you come into the theatre, you have to be willing to say, 'We're all here to undergo a communion, to find out what the hell is going on in this world. ' If you're not willing to say that, what you get is entertainment instead of art, and poor entertainment at that.
I don't understand bus lanes. Why do poor people have to get to places quicker than I do?
As long as his strength permits, the poor mortal must always climb new mountains.
