Above all, let the poor hang up the amulet of temperance in their homes.
If we love (the poor) people, we want to identify with them and share with them.
The only problem that those people have anyway is that they don't like new cars and hair sprays. That's why they are put away. They make the other members of the society fearful. Every asylum in this nation is filled with poor souls who simply cannot stand lanolin, cellophane, plastic, television, and subdivisions.
Proper prior planning prevents pitiful poor performance.
It doesn't matter where you came from, it doesn't matter how poor you are, it doesn't matter where your family was. It all doesn't matter. You can achieve anything if you have really clear goals and if you work really hard to learn what you need to learn.
Settle your quarrels, come together, understand the reality of our situation, understand that fascism is already here, that people are already dying who could be saved, that generations more will live poor butchered half-lives if you fail to act. Do what must be done, discover your humanity and your love in revolution.
My brother and I laughed a lot as kids. We came up in the middle of the Depression, and neither one of us knew we were poor. We had nothing, but we didn't know it.
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.
I am the product of many whose lives have touched mine, from the famous, distinguished, and powerful to the little known and the poor.
New York is a city where it's particularly hard to be poor, not only because everything costs twice as much as it does elsewhere but because over-the-top affluence is part of its identity.
I was poor once, I didn't like it, I don't want to be poor again.
We tried to provide more for the poor and produced more poor instead. We tried to remove the barriers to escape poverty, and inadvertently built a trap.
The patience and forbearance of the poor are among the strongest bulwarks of the rich.
O, how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors.
Anyway, seeking work is a tad difficult given the poor design of the streets with their prohibitive curbs and driveways that don't quite line up.
Rich people manage their money well. Poor people mismanage their money well.
Feeding the starving poor only increases their number.
Let us buy atleast one product of Khadi fabric and help light a lamp of Diwali in the homes of the poor.
No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.
Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house.
