Poor People Quotes - Page 18

• The way to turn our economy around is not by making rich people poorer, it's by making poor people richer.

  Marco Rubio

  People, Way, Rich

  "Marco Rubio visits Iowa and stirs early talk of 2016 presidential campaign" by Rory Carroll, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2012.

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• It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.

  Imran Khan

  Country, People, Important

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• Income inequality has no necessary connection with poverty, the lack of material resources for a decent life, such as adequate food, shelter, and clothing. A society with great income inequality may have no poor people, and a society with no income inequality may have nothing but poor people.

  Robert Higgs

  People, Connections, Income

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• One who has been touched by grace will no longer look on those who stray as "those evil people" or "those poor people who need our help." Nor must we search for signs of "loveworthiness." Grace teaches us that God loves because of who God is, not because of who we are.

  Philip Yancey

  Love Is, Evil People, Grace

  Philip Yancey (2003). “What's So Amazing about Grace?”, p.89, HarperCollins Christian Publishing

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• We have to grasp, as Marx and Adam Smith did, that corporations are not concerned with the common good. They exploit, pollute, impoverish, repress, kill, and lie to make money. They throw poor people out of homes, let the uninsured die, wage useless wars for profit, poison and pollute the ecosystem, slash social assistance programs, gut public education, trash the global economy, plunder the U.S. Treasury and crush all popular movements that seek justice for working men and women. They worship money and power.

  Chris Hedges

  Crush, Lying, War

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• I choose the poverty of our poor people. But I am grateful to receive it (the Nobel) in the name of the hungry, the naked, the homeless, of the crippled, of the blind, of the lepers, of all those people who feel unwanted, unloved, uncared for throughout society, people that have become a burden to the society and are shunned by everyone.

  Mother Teresa

  Grateful, Names, People

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• Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Money, People

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• It's a mistake to think that poor people get the benefit from the welfare system. It's a total fraud. Most welfare go to the rich of this country: the military-industrial complex, the bankers, the foreign dictators, it's totally out of control... This idea that the government has services or goods that they can pass on is a complete farce. Governments have nothing. They can't create anything, they never have. All they can do is steal from one group and give it to another at the destruction of the principles of freedom, and we ought to challenge that concept.

  Ron Paul

  Country, Military, Mistake

  Television interview, 1987.

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• Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

  James A. Baldwin

  Inspirational, Black, Poverty

  Nobody Knows My Name (1961) "Fifth Avenue, Uptown: a letter from Harlem"

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• There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Witty, Humorous, Food

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• Poor people, especially those of color, are worth nothing to corporations and private contractors if they are on the street. In jail and prisons, however, they can each generate corporate revenues of $30,000 to $40,000 a year.

  Chris Hedges

  Color, Years, Jail

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  Foreign aid is taking money from the poor people of a rich country and giving it to the rich people of a poor country.

  Ron Paul

  Country, Rich Countries, Giving

  Ron Paul (2008). “Pillars of Prosperity: Free Markets, Honest Money, Private Property”, p.342, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• I have a question, a question for the president: Do you hate all rich people, or just rich people who don't contribute to your campaign? Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?

  Rand Paul

  Jobs, Hate, People

  "Rand Paul To Obama: 'Do You Hate Rich People Or Just Rich People Who Don't Contribute To Your Campaign?'". www.realclearpolitics.com. February 9, 2012.

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• Poor people will do almost anything to avoid problems. They see a challenge and they run...the secret to success, my friends, is not to try to avoid or get rid of or shrink from your problems; the secret is to grow yourself so that you are bigger than your problems.

  T. Harv Eker

  Inspirational, Friends, Running

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from May 08, 2012

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