“And plenty makes us poor.”
John Dryden
“A poor surgeon hurts 1 person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130.”
Ernest Boyer
“Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.”
Dan Quayle
“Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.”
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
“We don't really have a fair system, our social system doesn't work if you're poor in the US you're dirt poor and the distribution of wealth is more than uneven. If you're poor and you get sick you have no health insurance, no financial security, nothing. if that could be changed I wouldn't mind paying more tax, but I mind my taxes being spent on wars!”
Billie Joe Armstrong
“I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.”
Kurt Vonnegut
“Staring us in the face is the desperate plight of the poor. We don't need statistics to tell us that. They are flesh and blood people like ourselves, often out of work, forced out of rented premises, without money and without food.”
Eva Burrows
