“To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.”
W. E. B. Du Bois
“Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on. The small landowners are the most precious part of a state.”
Thomas Jefferson
“Religion is what keeps the poor man from murdering the rich”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“A poor surgeon hurts 1 person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130.”
Ernest Boyer
“I regard no man as poor who has a godly mother.”
Abraham Lincoln
“It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.”
Seneca
“Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.”
Madonna
