#poor

The thing which grieves and oppresses my heart with respect to poor Scotland, is the hardness of heart manifest in the levity and cruelty with which they speak of others. ↗

— Edward Irving

#grieves #hardness #heart #levity #manifest

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

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money. ↗

— W. C. Fields

#money #nothing #poor #poor man #rich

My family in general - they're troubled or poorer people. ↗

— Rickie Lee Jones

#general #people #poorer #troubled

There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

#cure #groups #hard #hard work #members

I've gone from being quite wealthy, when I was defending women, to being quite poor defending men. ↗

— Warren Farrell

#defending #gone #i #men #poor

My poor mum had a lot of problems with me around that time. I was young but I'd been working for years, so if she asked me to clean my room I'd say, 'You can't tell me what to do after I've worked a 12-hour day.' It gave me a power that no one that age should have. ↗

— Milla Jovovich

#age #around #asked #been #clean

The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity. ↗

— Carl Jung

#christianity #europe #gospel #heard #heathen

As kids we didn't complain about being poor; we talked about how rich we were going to be and made moves to get the lifestyle we aspired to by any means we could. And as soon as we had a little money, we were eager to show it. ↗

— Jay-Z

#any #aspired #being #complain #could

One of the reasons inequality gets so deep in this country is that everyone wants to be rich. That's the American ideal. Poor people don't like talking about poverty because even though they might live in the projects surrounded by other poor people and have, like, ten dollars in the bank, they don't like to think of themselves as poor. ↗

— Jay-Z

#american #bank #because #country #deep