#poor people

There are no automatic links between poverty and terrorism. Among millions of poor people in the world, only a few turn to terrorism. ↗

— Gijs de Vries

#automatic #between #few #links #millions

This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color. Every few years you will see some great change in the way that they approach this. We've had the war on poverty that never really got into waging a real war on poverty. ↗

— Maxine Waters

#approach #change #color #deal #every

Poor people and working people have not been the focus of the Obama administration. That for me is not just a disappointment but a kind of betrayal. ↗

— Cornel West

#betrayal #disappointment #focus #just #kind

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

I was just very interested in the American frontier and the growth of capitalism - those enormous fortunes that were being made, more often than not, on the blood of poor people, black people, Indian people. They were the ones who paid very dearly for those great fortunes. ↗

— Peter Matthiessen

#being #black #blood #capitalism #dearly

To see those babies with no food for three of four days, old people sitting in the hot sun, when you see these poor people, you cannot help but being compassionate or affected. ↗

— Geraldo Rivera

#babies #being #cannot #compassionate #days

Last year, when we were in Mobile, Al., covering Hurricane Ivan, we heard the stories of poor people, many of them black stranded downtown because they had no way out. ↗

— Al Roker

#because #black #covering #downtown #had

There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#first #luck #others #out #people

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. ↗

— Charles Schumer

#bills #make #middle-class #middle-class people #need

India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people. ↗

— Manmohan Singh

#happens #india #inhabited #people #poor