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I am not poor. Poor are those who desire many things.

If you are born poor, it’s not your mistake. But if you die poor, it’s your mistake.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.

This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.

History will judge societies and governments – and their institutions – not by how big they are or how well they serve the rich and the powerful, but by how effectively they respond to the needs of the poor and the helpless.

The greatest step forward in human evolution was made when society began to help the weak and the poor, instead of oppressing and despising them.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

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

You know the funny thing, I don’t get along with rich people. I get along with the middle class and the poor people better than I get along with the rich people.

For me, democratic socialism is about – really, the value for me is that I believe that in a modern, moral, and wealthy society, no person in America should be too poor to live.

Poverty is a big barrier if you are at the bottom layer of society, don’t know where the next meal is coming from. It is not a big barrier of taking the rich with the poor in a big society to provide schooling for all.

Once the demands of necessity and propriety have been met, the rest that one owns belongs to the poor.

Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.

Look poor, think rich.

Some people are so poor, all they have is their money.

But colonialism in its harshest forms is not only the exploitation of new nations by old, of dark skins by light, or the subjugation of the poor by the rich. My Nation was once a colony, and we know what colonialism means; the exploitation and subjugation of the weak by the powerful, of the many by the few, of the governed who have given no consent to be governed, whatever their continent, their class, their color.

I’d rather be poor and happy than rich and alone.

If the poor ever feel poor as the rich do, we will have a most bloody revolution.

When I see the poor in India, it reminds me of the work that I have to do for them.

Nature still obstinately refuses to co-operate by making the rich people innately superior to the poor people.

Remember, imperialism is always presented as humanitarian: the white man’s burden, the cross going round the world, the poor benighted natives, the sun never sets. . . So you have to be very careful about humanitarianism.

They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?

They gave me star treatment when I was making a lot of money. But I was just as good when I was poor.

In the whole world no poor devil is lynched, no wretch is tortured, in whom I too am not degraded and murdered.

Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor

Owls are wise. They are careful and patient. Wisdom precludes boldness. That is why owls make poor heroes.

Our struggle is not easy. Those who oppose our cause are rich and powerful and they have many allies in high places. We are poor. Our allies are few. But we have something the rich do not own. We have our bodies and spirits and the justice of our cause as our weapons.

A poor teacher complains, an average teacher explains, a good teacher teaches, a great teacher inspires.

Poor minds talk about people average minds talk about events great minds talk about ideas

Why do men like me want sons? he wondered. It must be because they hope in their poor beaten souls that these new men, who are their blood, will do the things they were not strong enough nor wise enough nor brave enough to do. It is rather like another chance at life; like a new bag of coins at a table of luck after your fortune is gone.

The poor can’t wait. Philanthropists needed to carry on being generous.

We all get the same amount of ice. The rich get it in the summer. The poor get it in the winter.