Poor People Quotes - Page 7

• Love is a concept invented by poor people.

  Brandon Wade

  Love Is, People, Poor

  "Dating website founder says love doesn't exist" by Brandon Wade, www.cnn.com. September 29, 2014.

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• The impact of all these restrictions is on poor women, because women who have means, if their state doesn't provide access, another state does. ... It makes no sense as a national policy to promote birth only among poor people.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Mean, Eugenics, Impact

  "Ruth Bader Ginsburg Thinks This Justice Is Responsible For Halting Access To Abortions" By Sam Levine, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 23, 2014.

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• Politics doesn't work. Look at the parts of America where government has had the most power, where government has spent the most money. Look at the housing projects we've got the poor people in.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Government, America, People

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• What if I had been born during a war and I lived in an occupied city, and people were being taken out and shot every day? Everything would be different - even after the war ended, my future would be very different. Look at what these poor people in Aleppo are going through. The children, the ones who survive, are going to be absolutely altered by what they live through, and you and I, luckily, have never had to deal with that.

  Paul Auster

  Children, War, Taken

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The greatest percentage of poverty is found in female-headed households. Over 70 percent of female-headed households are poor. A large percentage of poor people are children (17 percent); fully 85 percent of black children living in poverty reside in a female-headed household.

  Walter E. Williams

  Children, People, Black

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• Three thousand people died at ground zero. Their families are entitled to a little bit of respect, to respect the memory of those poor people that died there. And how about the families of all those soldiers that died in the two ensuing wars? Aren't they entitled to a little bit of respect - the kids, the wives, the parents?

  Carl Paladino

  Zero, Memories, War

  "Tea Party Victory Shakes Up New York Politics". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. September 22, 2010.

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• I met Jay Jonhson. I won him the way poor people occasionally win the lottery: Shameless perseverance and embarrassingly dumb luck, and every time I see one of those sly, toothless, beaten-down souls on TV holding a winning ticket, I think, Go, team.

  Amy Bloom

  Perseverance, Team, Winning

  Amy Bloom (2010). “Where The God Of Love Hangs Out”, p.55, Granta Books

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• Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.

  Jack Paar

  Fun, Vaccines, People

  JACK PAAR (1965). “THREE ON A RUSH”

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• Poverty is not created by poor people. It is produced by our failure to create institutions to support human capabilities.

  Muhammad Yunus

  People, Support, Poverty

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• So it's a mistake for someone to think that they bailed New York out. They did assist us, for which we are grateful, but it's a mistake to say we bailed New York out by giving them a grant of money to help those poor people who throw it away on welfare.

  David Dinkins

  New York, Mistake, Grateful

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• Wal-Mart has done more for poor people then any ten liberals, at least nine of whom are almost guaranteed to hate Wal-Mart.

  Thomas Sowell

  Hate, People, Done

  Thomas Sowell (2011). “Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)”, p.405, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Niggerization is the result of oppression -- and it doesn't just apply to the black people. Old people, poor people, and students can also get niggerized.

  Florynce Kennedy

  People, Black, Minorities

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• Rich people collect land. Poor people collect bills.

  T. Harv Eker

  Land, People, Bills

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• Rich people choose to get paid based on results. Poor people choose to get paid based on time.

  T. Harv Eker

  People, Rich, Poor

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• People in Medicaid ought to have access to the same insurance as the rest of the population. If they are segregated, it will be a poor plan for poor people.

  John Goodman

  People, Population, Poor

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• In my opinion, the Republican Party is the last on the list to care about the needs of old people and children and poor people.

  Rickie Lee Jones

  Children, Party, People

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• I met the president when he was president-elect at a meeting in Austin. He spoke of his faith. He spoke of his desire for a compassionate conservatism, for a faith-based initiative that would do something for poor people.

  Jim Wallis

  People, President, Desire

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• Contribute to charitable projects like the printing of spiritual books so that they can be sold at a lower price. Poor people will then be able to buy and read them. In this way we can help to cultivate spiritual culture in them also.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Book, People

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• I was just very interested in the American frontier and the growth of capitalism - those enormous fortunes that were being made, more often than not, on the blood of poor people, black people, Indian people. They were the ones who paid very dearly for those great fortunes.

  Peter Matthiessen

  Blood, People, Black

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• Hip-hop is a voice for voiceless poor people.

  Russell Simmons

  Voice, People, Hip Hop

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. September 26, 2002.

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• Those of us in the west have figured out a lot of ways to damage the lives of poor people in this country and around the world over the years.

  Bill McKibben

  Country, Years, People

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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• Avoid debt that doesn’t pay you. Make it a rule that you never use debt that won’t make you money. I borrowed money for a car only because I knew it could increase my income. Rich people use debt to leverage investments and grow cash flows. Poor people use debt to buy things that make rich people richer.

  Grant Cardone

  Cash Flow, People, Car

  "How to become a millionaire by age 30" by Grant Cardone, www.businessinsider.com. November 13, 2014.

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• The world is full of smart, poor people.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Smart, People, World

  FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from Jan 23, 2012

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• We're the only nation in the world where most of our poor people are fat.

  Phil Gramm

  People, World, Poor

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• America is divided by economics, and we as Americans, we've got to do a better job of supporting poor people.

  Charles Barkley

  Jobs, America, People

  The CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. August 26, 2008.

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