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• To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

  Baruch Spinoza

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• I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of poverty trying to survive.

  Tyler Perry

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• The UK has a poor investment record. According to IMF data, we have come seventh out of the top seven industrialised countries since 1999.

  Frances O'Grady

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• But when others suggested that the poor should not simply be the objects of these programs but also the subjects – that they should be actively involved in shaping the programs, making decisions about how to spend the money etc. – some of the previous supporters reconsidered.

  Barney Frank

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• Even a poor man can receive honors.

  Sophocles

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• Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

  Samuel Johnson

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• Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

  Samuel Johnson

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• To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

  Samuel Johnson

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• It’s not hard to tell we was poor – when you saw the toilet paper dryin’ on the clothesline.

  George Lindsey

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• It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush.

  George Herbert

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• Poor Andy Nave was killed. He refused to surrender and was shot by Dick Fields. I felt sorry as he used to be quite friendly towards me before the war, but it could not be helped.

  Stand Watie

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• If they think they have issues with the president not doing enough for the poor now, wait and see what happens if the opposition takes office. Then they would really need a poverty tour.

  Cornel West

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• Love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that’s being pushed to the margins, and you can see it.

  Cornel West

  Topics in Justice, Trust

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• If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded.

  Solomon King

  Topics in Justice

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• The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor.

  Constance Baker Motley

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• Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.

  Sitting Bull

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• When you’re really poor, everything you see is something you can’t have.

  Sir Patrick Duncan

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• It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.

  Sir Joshua Reynolds

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• If you are poor, you are not likely to live long.

  Nelson Mandela

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• A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.

  Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette

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  Tags in Childhood, Preparation, Poor