71 Quotes About Poor-people

What is honour, my dear, when you have nothing to eat?

First the strangers came with argument and authority and gunpowder to back up both. And in the four hundred years Kino's people had learned only one defense - a slight slitting of the eyes and a slight tightening of the lips and a retirement. Nothing could break down this wall, and they could remain whole within the wall.

I'm sure someone would say it's my own damn fault. That it was my responsibility to build an emergency fund. At least three months' salary, the experts say. I would love to backhand whoever came up with that number. They clearly never had a job with take-home pay that barely covers rent, food, and utilities. Because here's the thing about being poor-most people don't understand it unless they've been there themselves.

The real test of the quality of life in a nation, as in a community, is how well the poorest people in it live.

Why do the poor refuse to give an accurate picture of their suffering?

Poverty alleviation occurs when the power of Christ's resurrection reconciles our key relationships through the transformation of both individual lives and local, national, and international systems.

before judging a poor a judge should first see and think like a poor then judge accordingly

I recognize now that the conditions that Indians are living in are the conditions that poor people everywhere are living in.