Without an advocate for the poor, without a new state of mind in America, the country lies on the brink of anarchy.
Louis Farrakhan

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

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
William Penn

Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.
Sitting Bull

They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?
Princess Diana

Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - particularly the 'forgotten emergencies' in poor countries or regions with little strategic or material appeal.
Desmond Tutu

Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.
Euripides

When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.
Euripides

Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.
Dan Quayle

No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.
Flannery O'Connor

Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.
Leon Trotsky

Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.
Benjamin Disraeli

Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.
John Ruskin

We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much.
John Kenneth Galbraith

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.
John Kenneth Galbraith

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
George Eliot

Who gets the risks? The risks are given to the consumer, the unsuspecting consumer and the poor work force. And who gets the benefits? The benefits are only for the corporations, for the money makers.
Cesar Chavez

It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor - as long as you've got money.
Joe E. Lewis

Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny.
Charles Barkley