#poor people

I don't think anyone sets out to malign poor people but certainly that's what we do through organizations such as the World Trade Organization, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. ↗

— Bob Geldof

#bank #certainly #fund #i #international

The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#authorities #belonged #men #morocco #people

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

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

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

I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over. ↗

— Muhammad Yunus

#bank #bankers #fell #i #lend

I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh. ↗

— Muhammad Yunus

#circumstances #ever #get #given #had

They explained to me that the bank cannot lend money to poor people because these people are not creditworthy. ↗

— Muhammad Yunus

#because #cannot #explained #lend #me

You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course. ↗

— Jello Biafra

#football #golf #golf course #homeless #housing