Poor Quotes

The philosophy of the rich and the poor is this: the rich invest their money and spend what is left. The poor spend their money and invest what is left.

The only difference between a RICH person and a POOR person is how they use their time.

The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.

I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.

I don’t come from a family that had the money to put me through college, so I left school with $100,000 in student loan debt.

The poor suffer twice at the rioter’s hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.

Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.

The poor and the working poor have been locked out of the nation’s consciousness, even by the media and by many ministers. Katrina washed away the debris that was covering the locked out and left behind.

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.