#poor

The world's urban poor and the illiterate are going to be increasingly disadvantaged and are in danger of being left behind. The web has added a new dimension to the gap between the first world and the developing world. We have to start talking about a human right to connect. ↗

— Tim Berners Lee

#added #behind #being #between #connect

Oscar Wilde said the rich and the poor are equal - they can both sleep under the bridge. Right? Do they have a right? You're damn right they have a right! ↗

— Al Lewis

#bridge #damn #equal #oscar #oscar wilde

Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it discriminates against the underprivileged, it discriminates against the poor. If we want sports to go back to the wealthy, let's make it amateur again. ↗

— Carl Lewis

#against #amateur #back #because #discrimination

The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#cannot #drawings #imagination #models #only

If you look around Brazil you see pregnant women everywhere. Here you don't see that as much. There the only thing they do is babies, babies, babies! Especially the poor families. ↗

— Adriana Lima

#babies #brazil #especially #everywhere #families

Though there are many differences between Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter, they are strikingly similar in their poor economic records and even more so in their shared pessimism and bearishness on America. ↗

— David Limbaugh

#barack #barack obama #between #carter #differences

The world is richer than ever, and the gaps between rich and poor are wider. ↗

— Anna Lindh

#ever #gaps #poor #rich #richer

I don't think I can tell any stories about how I lived in a van in Alaska. I grew up in the suburbs, I even had my own room. We weren't poor. Everything was very normal. ↗

— Lisa Loeb

#alaska #any #even #everything #grew

A poor choice of words conveyed to some the impression that I embrace the discarded policies of the past. Nothing could be further from the truth, and I apologize to anyone who was offended by my statement. ↗

— Trent Lott

#apologize #choice #conveyed #could #discarded

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#compromise #expedient #good #makes #often