#poo

When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and all the blacks were still poor. Materially, not much changed. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#battle #blacks #changed #civil #civil rights

The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too. ↗

— Oscar Levant

#allow #between #corrupt #democrats #difference

It seems to me I spent my life in car pools, but you know, that's how I kept track of what was going on. ↗

— Barbara Bush

#going #how #i #kept #know

Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#elephants #find #judgment #many #obscure

There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor. ↗

— A. J. Liebling

#concept #generally #more #poor #publishers

It would be nice to say the rich people, the fancy people, all behaved like bastards and the poor slobs all came through like heroes. But as a matter of fact, sometimes the poor slobs behave like slobs and the great, noble, privileged characters come off very well, indeed. ↗

— Walter Lord

#be nice #behave #behaved #came #characters

Of the 22 industrialized nations of the world, we're dead last in per capita giving to poor people. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#dead #giving #industrialized #last #nations

Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#does #empower #enrich #freedom #further

Running those poor steers back and forth in the heat is ridiculous. What they ought to do is put the steers in the convention hall and run the delegates. ↗

— Stanley Marcus

#convention #delegates #forth #hall #heat

I would rather write for the instruction, or even the amusement of the poor than for the amusement of the rich. ↗

— Frederick Marryat

#even #i #instruction #poor #rather