They blame the low-income women for ruining the country because they're staying home with their children and not going out to work. They blame the middle-income women for ruining the country because they go out to work and do not stay home to take care of their children.
—Ann Richards
Simplicity doesn't mean to live in misery and poverty. You have what you need, and you don't want to have what you don't need.
—Charan Singh
It is the people who have no say in making wars who suffer most from the consequences of them.
—Philippa Carr
Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.
—Peter Ustinov
The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for error; and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes.
—Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Every crime is born of necessity. If you want less crime, you must change the conditions. Poverty makes crime. Want, rags, crusts, failure, misfortune—all these awake the wild beast in man, and finally he takes, and takes contrary to law, and becomes a criminal. And what do you do with him? You punish him. Why not punish a man for having consumption? The time will come when you will see that that is just as logical.
—Robert Ingersoll
The trouble is that rich people, well-to-do people, very often don't really know who the poor are; and that is why we can forgive them, for knowledge can only lead to love, and love to service. And so, if they are not touched by the poor, it's because they do not know them.
—Mother Teresa
Who, being loved, is poor?
—Oscar Wilde
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
—Michel de Montaigne
The poor have been sent to the front lines of a federal-budget deficit-reduction war that few other groups were drafted to fight.
—Marian Wright Edelman
Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit.
—Eli Khamarov
We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.
—Lionel Trilling
When a poor man knocks at your door and says, "I'm hungry," and your first thought is Why can't you get a job?, you've invaded his privacy. Why would you need to know why he can't get a job? He didn't come to discuss his inabilities or bad habits; he came to discuss his hunger. If you want to do something about it, feed him.
—Rabbi Manis Friedman
Poverty made me feel weak, as if I were coming down with an awful, debilitating, communicable disease—the disease of being without money. Instead of going to the hospital, you went to the poor farm. The difference was, you never got well at the poor farm.
—Faith Sullivan
It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.
—Bill Vaughan