Top Poor Quotes
I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
Pablo Picasso
The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and yelling, 'You want a piece of me?'
Robin Williams
War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
David Friedman
Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny.
Charles Barkley
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Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.
Leon Trotsky 
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Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
Benjamin Franklin
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When I was a kid in Houston, we were so poor we couldn't afford the last 2 letters, so we called ourselves po'.
George Foreman
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Technology tools such as laptops are the kind of help that we need. A program that provides laptops for all youngsters would close a gap that most of us are not aware of, or will not admit to, which is a tremendous gap in the poor communities.
Major Owens
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Our educational system is appallingly poor right now. Yet, somehow we're turning out some of the most intellectual and powerful sophisticated minds in the world. I think that's because we still have the opportunity here.
Malcolm Wallop
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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
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Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.
Edmund Waller
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If no man could become rich in Peru, no man could become poor.
William Prescott
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