Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.
Edward Abbey
The familiar mood that awaits the sensitive young who are poor and dispossessed is a mood of sharp and painful inferiority, of violently angry... →
Peter Abrahams
They've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards.
Creighton Abrams
The ransoming of captives has been practiced by Jews for many centuries and has been regarded as a greater obligation than charity for the poor.
Elliott Abrams
I've personally demanded that tyrants let their people go. I've tried to feed the hungry, clothe the poor, protect the elderly and infirm... →
Gary Ackerman
Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a... →
Lord Acton
In the end of five years I made supplication to the king to go out of this land, desiring to see my poor wife and children according to conscience... →
William Adams
It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity, to reduce... →
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.
Theodor Adorno
The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.