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Poor People Quotes
On hardship, hope, and the gap between the two.
These Poor People quotes come from voices describing crowded childhood homes, microloans aimed at those banks overlooked, and the striking gap between a country's overall wealth and the daily reality of its poorest citizens.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have poor people skills, and I cannot become a minister.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dependency arguments often come from elites - either aid agencies or governments - and say something about attitudes to poor people.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was from very poor people: 11 of us in a two-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn. I wanted the large houses, the cars, jets, and yacht.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I founded Samasource because I was frustrated by traditional approaches to poverty alleviation. Even those approaches focused on jobs often equip poor people with skills for which there is little market demand.
- Despondency
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ours is not a poor country and even though we are now a poor people, there should be no room for the despondency that has settled on large sections of the population.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The poor people of the world tend to be the places that al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups can recruit.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poor people put a low value on themselves and their efforts.
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It is plain that we don't care about our poor people except to exploit them as cheap labor and victimize them through excessive rents and consumer prices.
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We need to make sure middle-class people are able to pay the bills. We need to make sure that poor people don't starve. Those are values, too.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We decided in the mid-1960s that all poor people are the same: they are all poor. We know they're poor because we have defined a poverty line, and they're all underneath it.
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- Nov 07, 2020