219 quotes found
“When I get down to my last dime I'll just walk over to skid row.""There are some real weirdos down there.""They're everywhere.”
“Some of the best people that ever lived have been as destitute as I am; and if you are a Christian, you ought not to consider poverty a crime.”
“This time of year," she said, "people’s consciences gnaw at them. They give away truckloads of canned goods and quote Dickens and wring their hands over the ‘less fortunate.’" We boarded the Metro ...”
“In short, I am convinced, both by faith and experience, that to maintain one's self on this earth is not a hardship but a pastime, if we will live simply and wisely; as the pursuits of the simpler ...”
“I feel both isolated from poverty – I do not know what my neighbors need or if they need anything – and surrounded by it because now we know all about the hunger and death in the world, and everyon...”
“They are les misérables - the outcasts, the underdogs. And who is to blame? Is it not the most fallen who have most need of charity?”
“Amidst the crowd, tumbling like a stone, although lying on the roads, I’m but a life.”
“Here was the South Side--a million in captivity--stretching from this doorstep as far as the eye could see. And they didn't even read; depressed populations don't have the time or energy to spare. ...”
“Rich people is people who only cares for themselves, and their money but, poor people doesn't care how much money they have because they have a big heart”
“A big hole in a poor child’s shoe is the simplest evidence to condemn the society he lives in.”
“Valuables. That was a hot one, Richards thought, unbuttoning his shirt. He had an empty wallet with a few pictures of Sheila and Cathy, a receipt for a shoe sole he had replaced at the local cobble...”
“Hunger is insolent and will be fed.”
“If you've ever really been poor you remain poor at heart all your life.”
“The rich would have to eat money but luckily the poor provide food.”
“There is no scandal like rags nor any crime so shameful as poverty.”
“It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It's a blunder though and is punished as such.”
“If a free society cannot help the many who are poor it cannot save the few who are rich.”
“Short of genius a rich man cannot imagine poverty.”
“O God! that bread should be so dear And flesh and blood so cheap!”
