219 quotes found
“Suffering is a cutting edge political design.”
“Rebels usually have something to complain about, and if they don't they make it up. All too often the really disadvantaged are in no position to rebel; they just suffer quietly.”
“The poor love life as passionately as the rich do. Perhaps more, for the effort it takes to cling to it.”
“This time of year," she said, "peoples 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 and...”
“In the past 20 years alone, it adds up to more death than were caused by all the civil and international wars adn government repression of the entire twentieth century, the century of Hitler and St...”
“According to the 2003 data from the U.S. Census Bureau, 25.8 percent of [New Orleans] population lives below the poverty line... This is more than twice the national average, but is close tot he pe...”
“Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor”
“Poverty always looks the same, no matter where you come across it. The rich can always express their opulence by varying their lives. Different houses, clothes, cars. Or thoughts, dreams. But for t...”
“Poverty is a dish best served with Potato Soup.”
“Sometimes being poor means having to choose between your principles and your survival.”
“Poverty without a people's government looks like hopelessness, but to see poverty in organized communities is to see relief-in-progress.”
“The poor eats with his eyes, the rich with his mouth.”
“God's friendship is with people who know their poverty.”
“Papa used to say that wealth is a sin and poverty is a punishment but that God apparently wants there to be no connection between the sin and the punishment. One man sins and another is punished. T...”
“Poverty was a dog whose teeth sank deep.”
“How was a boy who'd tasted poverty ever expected to choose the poorer road?”
“The poor who commit murder, rape and robbery are not only not starving, they have far more material things than the word poverty suggests.”
“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 ...”
“There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one's means of livelihood. I have nothing but contempt for the people who despise money. They are hypocrites or fools. Money is like a si...”
“You know what you learn when you study the legal system? Poor people pass down damage the way rich people pass down an inheritance.”
