Poor People Quotes - Page 4

• We know by now how to photograph poor people. What we don't know is how to photograph affluence - whose other face is poverty.

  Dorothea Lange

  People, Poverty, Faces

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• This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color. Every few years you will see some great change in the way that they approach this. We've had the war on poverty that never really got into waging a real war on poverty

  Maxine Waters

  Change, Real, War

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• One of the principles we teach in our programs is "If you shoot for the stars, you'll at least hit the moon." Poor people don't even shoot for the ceiling in their house, and then they wonder why they're not successful.

  T. Harv Eker

  Inspirational, Stars, Successful

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Feb 06, 2017

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• We can remove poverty from the surface of the earth only if we can redesign our institutions - like the banking institutions, and other institutions; if we redesign our policies, if we look back on our concepts, so that we have a different idea of poor people.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Ideas, People, Different

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• Policies are also to blame: the only thing that the governments and people can come up with to give to the poor people is charity. Poor people get hand outs from the state. But this is not a solution to poverty.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Government, Hands, People

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• And you can put your total energy for the inner eye. The outside eyes are wasting eighty percent of energy - it is the major part. Man has five senses, eighty per cent is taken away by the eyes and only twenty per cent is left for the other four senses. They are very poor people, those four. Eyes are very rich, they have monopolised the whole thing; hence it is good - eighty per cent energy is saved - and that can be immediately used for witnessing, for seeing your inner world. hence in the East we call a person who is blind 'pragyanshakshu' - this word is untranslatable.

  Rajneesh

  Taken, Eye, Men

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• South Africa does not have a poverty problem. Poverty is a result of denialism of the way corruption taxes poor people, the inefficiencies that undermine poor people's opportunities and our refusal to admit that we are part of the problem.

  Mamphela Ramphele

  Opportunity, People, Way

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• It's not funny at all that we do all that advertising for children. Why is advertising for children allowed? What possible reason can there be for having those effing adverts on TV for all this crap that's made by poor people in poor countries that we sell our children who have too much?

  Emma Thompson

  Country, Children, People

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• The human population can no longer be allowed to grow in the same old uncontrollable way. If we do not take charge of our population size, then nature will do it for us and it is the poor people of the world who will suffer most

  David Attenborough

  People, Suffering, Size

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• Ask a footballer what they can cook and they always say spaghetti. It is what you reach for when there is nothing else left in the larder. It's poor people's food and it's unsophisticated. It's the same as bread - you just boil it instead of putting it in the oven.

  Giles Coren

  People, Bread, Poor

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• Well... I still can't see the light at the end of the
  tunnel. These politicians are such sleazebags that you
  just don't know. You can't really get anything from a
  lot of them once they get into power. They totally
  forget about all their commitments. The poor people
  elect them, and they forget about all the poor people.

  Leonard Peltier

  Commitment, Tunnels, Light

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• Policy, for the most part, has been made by white people in America, not by people of color. And they have tended to take care of those things that they think are important. Whether it's their agricultural subsidies, or other kinds of expenditures that are certainly not expenditures for poor people or for people of color. And so we have to band together and keep fighting back.

  Maxine Waters

  Fighting, Thinking, Color

  "Los Angeles Times Interview : Maxine Waters : Veteran Legislator Makes People Angry-but She's Never Ignored". Interview with Robert Scheer, articles.latimes.com. May 16, 1993.

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• [Conservatives] go to church, they do lots of things for free for each other. They hold potluck dinners. ... They serve food to poor people. They share, they give, they give away for free. It's the very same people leading Wall Street firms who, on Sundays, show up and share.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Wall, Motivation, Inspiration

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• We owe something to the government to grow up in this great country. I'm tired of hearing people in the private sector talk like they don't owe the government anything. We do. This is a great country because we all pay into it. It's about time we all pay into it. ... If we paid the same amount of taxes we paid when Bill Clinton was president, I would be a happy guy, and the budget would be closer to balanced. You cannot give away money, whether you give it to rich or poor people. That's what George Bush did -- excuse me, trillions of dollars. You can't do that.

  Howard Dean

  Country, Growing Up, Tired

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• When we look at the Trump candidacy or we look at any Republican candidacy for the presidency that's been successful, they tend to win by the margin of black and brown and poor people and immigrants who do not vote.

  Marc Lamont Hill

  Successful, Winning, People

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Speaking generally, I think it's useful to acknowledge explicitly the power imbalance between a journalist and the protagonists in a story about poor people, even to make that imbalance part of the story - and to redress it, narratively, where you can.

  William Finnegan

  Thinking, People, Stories

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think the point about ActionAid is what it's asking people to do is engage with poor people in developing countries and understand what their lives are like and understand how the way we live our lives impacts on theirs.

  Emma Thompson

  Country, Thinking, Impact

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• All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.

  Desmond Tutu

  Country, People, United States

  Interview with Anjali Rao, www.cnn.com. October 24, 2007.

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• Sex is free fun for poor people.

  Doug Stanhope

  Sex, Fun, People

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• Poor people and working people have not been the focus of the Obama administration. That for me is not just a disappointment but a kind of betrayal.

  Cornel West

  Disappointment, Betrayal, People

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• Larry Summers, I think, he had a long history of arrogance and relative ignorance about poor people's culture and working people's culture and so forth.

  Cornel West

  Summer, Ignorance, Thinking

  "Cornel West INTERVIEW: Don’t Appoint Larry Summers As An Economic Adviser And Tell Me You’re Progressive". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 3, 2009.

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• No touching... Cashmere is highly sensitive to the oil in poor people's fingers.

  Daniel Tosh

  Oil, People, Touching

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• I contend that, in spite of all that might be said about Watergate, Richard Nixon was good for the poor people of America.

  Tony Campolo

  America, People, Might

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• I believe in the law. I think we have a great system of justice. But I do think that system of justice has been corrupted by racism and classism. I think it's difficult for 'poor people' - poor white people, brown people - to be treated fairly before the law in the same way that upper-class people are.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Believe, Thinking, Law

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• The problem is that affirmative action could never really get at the issue of corporate power in the workplace, and so you ended up with the downsizing; you ended up with de-industrializing. You ended up with the marginalizing of working people and working poor people even while affirmative action was taking place, and a new black middle class was expanding.

  Cornel West

  Class, Issues, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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