Poor People Quotes - Page 16

• Microfinance recognizes that poor people are remarkable reservoirs of energy and knowledge, posing an untapped opportunity to create markets, bring people in from the margins and give them the tools with which to help themselves.

  Kofi Annan

  Opportunity, People, Giving

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• There is an alternative to terror. It is called, in the political order, democracy. In the economic order, it is called the dynamic enterprise economy. (...) It empowers poor people from the bottom up. (...) A dynamic economic sector is the poor's best hope of escaping the prison of poverty. It is the only system so far known to human beings to take poor people and make them, quite soon, middle class, and some of them even (horrors!) rich.

  Michael Novak

  Escaping, Order, Class

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• I wanted to win to feed the hungry people of my community. I didn't want to win to buy a diamond.. I didn't have no diamonds then. I didn't want to win to buy a car, I didn't want to win to bring a couple of chicks downtown to a hotel. I wanted to win to feed the poor people of the community.

  Mr. T

  Couple, Winning, Car

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• Corporations are the only reason the tax code is so complicated in the first place. Those off-shore loopholes didn't get carved out by poor people.

  Jon Stewart

  People, Corporations, Firsts

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• India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people.

  Manmohan Singh

  Country, Powerful, Rich Countries

  "Manmohan’s India" by Hartosh Singh Bal, www.openthemagazine.com. August 08, 2009.

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• Rich people believe 'I create my life.' Poor people believe 'Life happens to me.'

  T. Harv Eker

  Believe, People, Rich

  "4 Millionaire Success Tips From T. Harv Eker" by Timothy Sykes, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 4, 2015.

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• I like rap music. But bragging about being rich to poor people is really offensive. I want to hear a rap song about buying a Cy Twombly painting or dating a museum curator. I want to hear about that kind of rich.

  John Waters

  Song, Rap, Museums

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• Microfinance recognizes that poor people are remarkable reservoirs of energy and knowledge

  Kofi Annan

  People, Energy, Poor

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• The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women.

  Tahar Ben Jelloun

  Men, Views, People

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• Who is affected more when it's cold? Poor people. Who is affected more when it's hot? Poor people. Who is affected more when it's wet? Poor people. Who is most affected when the economy is bad? Poor people. Poor people are the most fragile.

  Russel Honore

  People, Hot, Cold

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• Rich people are willing to promote themselves and their value. Poor people think negatively about selling and promotion.

  T. Harv Eker

  Thinking, People, Rich

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• Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out.

  Harry Browne

  Country, People, Going Out

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• Liberals believe that crime is inextricably linked with poverty. In reality, most poor people never resort to crime, and some wealthy people commit evil acts to enrich themselves further. Harlem, East Los Angeles, the South side of Chicago are not the poorest communities in the United States. According to a new U.S. Bureau of the Census report, the poorest communities are Shannon County, South Dakota, followed by Starr, Texas, and Tunica, Mississippi. Have you ever heard of these residents rioting to protest their living conditions?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Life, Believe, Reality

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• Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.

  Angela Davis

  Color, People, Prison

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• If we want to help poor people out, one way to do that is to help them explore and use their own capability. Human being is full of capacity, full of capability, it's a wonderful creation, but many people never get a chance to explore that, never know that she or he has that.

  Muhammad Yunus

  People, Use, Want

  Interview with Marika Griehsel, www.nobelprize.org. December 12, 2006.

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• I think clever people think that poor people are stupid.

  Norm MacDonald

  Clever, Stupid, Thinking

  "Norm MacDonald Has No Problem Paying O.J. Simpson Under the Table". Interview with Abram Sauer, www.esquire.com. April 12, 2011.

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• When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Philosophy, War, Philosophical

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• Morality is a matter of money. Poor people cannot afford to have morals. So they have religion.

  Khushwant Singh

  People, Matter, Morality

  Khushwant Singh (2009). “Train to Pakistan”, p.39, Penguin Books India

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• To me, the poor are like Bonsai trees. When you plant the best seed of the tallest tree in a six-inch deep flower pot, you get a perfect replica of the tallest tree, but it is only inches tall. There is nothing wrong with the seed you planted; only the soil-base you provided was inadequate. Poor people are bonsai people. There is nothing wrong with their seeds. Only society never gave them a base to grow on.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Flower, People, Perfect

  Muhammad Yunus (2007). “Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism”, p.54, PublicAffairs

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• I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Money, People, Bankers

  Twitter post from Aug 11, 2011

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• I think that prosecuting some college kid because she shared a file is a lot like sending somebody to Australia 200 years ago for poaching his lordship's rabbit. That's how it must seem to poor people who just want to watch a crappy movie for free after they’ve been working themselves to death all day at Tesco or whatever, you know.

  Iggy Pop

  Kids, College, Thinking

  "BBC Music John Peel Lecture - Iggy Pop's Keynote Speech Transcript". www.bbc.co.uk. 2014.

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• Rich people are committed to being rich. Poor people want to be rich.

  T. Harv Eker

  Inspirational, People, Secret

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Jul 26, 2010

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• I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Money, Ideas, People

  "Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the World’s Poorest Citizens, Makes His Case". Interview with Linda O’Bryon, knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu. March 9, 2005.

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• And one day we must ask the question, "Why are there forty million poor people in America?" And when you begin to ask that question, you are raising questions about the economic system, about a broader distribution of wealth. When you ask that question, you begin to question the capitalistic economy.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  America, People, One Day

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.205, Beacon Press

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• Recent research shows that many children without enough to eat wind up with diminished capacity to understand and learn (“cognitive impairment” ). Children don't have to be starving for this to happen. Even mild undernourishment — the kind most common among poor people in America — can do it.

  Carl Sagan

  Children, Wind, America

  "The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark".

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