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Quotes about poverty and the poor
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Too poor for a bribe and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune. (De Leon Daniel)
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. (De Leon Daniel)
Poverty is an anomaly to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell. (De Leon Daniel)
Anyone who has struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. (De Leon Daniel)
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The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing. (De Leon Daniel)
A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread. (De Leon Daniel)
Poverty is the step-mother of genius. (De Leon Daniel)
Remember the poor, it costs nothing. (De Leon Daniel)
I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design. (De Leon Daniel)
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships. (De Leon Daniel)
The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man. (De Leon Daniel)
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise. (De Leon Daniel)
When I gave food to the poor, they called me a saint. When I asked why the poor were hungry, they called me a communist. (De Leon Daniel)
The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor from whom charitable souls keep their distance, he has still said nothing. Or, rather, he has spoken through the voice of Victor Hugo, Zola, Richepin. At least, they said so. And these shameful impostures fed their authors. Cruel irony, the Poor Man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case. (De Leon Daniel)
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it. (De Leon Daniel)
To suppose such a thing possible as a society, in which men, who are able and willing to work, cannot support their families, and ought, with a great part of the women, to be compelled to lead a life of celibacy, for fear of having children to be starved; to suppose such a thing possible is monstrous. (De Leon Daniel)
In a country well governed poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed wealth is something to be ashamed of. (De Leon Daniel)
The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as Soho poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent. (De Leon Daniel)
To be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through the whole long weary night; to listen to the falling rain, and crouch for warmth beneath the lee of some old barn or rick, or in the hollow of a tree; are dismal things -- but not so dismal as the wandering up and down where shelter is, and beds and sleepers are by thousands; a houseless rejected creature. (De Leon Daniel)
One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it. (De Leon Daniel)
It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable. (De Leon Daniel)
Poverty consist in feeling poor. (De Leon Daniel)
The greatest man in history was the poorest. (De Leon Daniel)
It is a sin to be poor. (De Leon Daniel)
We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet. (De Leon Daniel)
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