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Quotes about Poor

The rich nations of the world are acting like ancient usurers, lending money to the desperate poor on terms that cannot possibly be met and, thus, steadily acquiring more and more control over the lives and assets of the poor.

William Grieder
Source: One World Ready or Not.
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You cannot get sick enough to help sick people get better. You cannot get poor enough to help poor people thrive. It is only in your thriving that you have anything to offer anyone. If you're wanting to be of an advantage to others, be as tapped in, turned in, turned on as you can possibly be. --- Abraham

Abraham Hicks
Source: Excerpted from the workshop in San Diego, CA on Saturday, February 15th, 2003
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The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without a dream.

Harry Kemp
 
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It doesn't matter if I am rich or poor just as long as I can keep smiling, keep breathing.

Raye : Transformation
Rachael Berg
Source: I made it up
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"A child born to a black mother in a state like Mississippi . . . has the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for."

Thurgood Marshall (1908 - 1993)
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"As often as you did it to one of the least of My brothers and sisters, you did it to Me."

Matthews 25:40
Source: Matthew 25:40
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Many, I believe, there are
Who live a life of virtuous decency,
Men who can hear the Decalogue and feel
No self-reproach; who of the moral law
Established in the land where they abide
Are strict observers; and not negligent
In acts of love to those with whom they dwell,
Their kindred, and the children of their blood.
Praise be to such, and to their slumbers peace!
--But of the poor man ask, the abject poor;
Go, and demand of him, if there be here
In this cold abstinence from evil deeds,
And these inevitable charities,
Wherewith to satisfy the human soul?
No--man is dear to man; the poorest poor
Long for some moments in a weary life
When they can know and feel that they have been,
Themselves, the fathers and the dealers-out
Of some small blessings; have been kind to such
As needed kindness, for this single cause,
That we have all of us one human heart.

William Wordsworth : English poet, leader of romantic movement
William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850)
Source: The Old Cumberland Beggar
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The only gift is giving to the poor; all else is exchange.

Thiruvalluvar
 
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Each one of them is Jesus in a distressing disguise.

Mother Teresa : Macedonian Catholic nun, founder of Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta in 1950
Mother Teresa (1910 - 1998)
 
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Ask questions of the learned, speak with the wise, and associate with the poor.

Muhammad
 
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If you live according to nature,
you will never be poor;
if you live according to opinions,
you will never be rich.

Epicurus (c. 341 - c. 270 BC)
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A man is not poor because he has nothing but because he does nothing.

unknown : Gaia Child
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Source: Albert W. Daw Collection
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