It is the lash of hunger which compels the poor man to submit. In order to live he must sell - 'voluntarily' sell - himself every day and... →
Johann Most
The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor.
Constance Baker Motley
In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.
Ferdinand Mount
Poor people are those who only work to try to keep an expensive lifestyle and always want more and more.
Jose Mujica
I'm called 'the poorest president', but I don't feel poor.
Trickle-down theories do not address the legitimate aspirations of the poor. We must lift those at the bottom so that poverty is erased from the... →
Pranab Mukherjee
One effect of an individualistic culture that's poor at instilling mutual respect is that people jump more quickly to anger or violence.
Geoff Mulgan
The wrongful arrest of tens of thousands of British Muslims after the September 11 attacks can be explained by the very poor intelligence the police... →
If you go and stop people at a supermarket and ask them for their receipt and say, 'Hey how much did you just spend?' middle class shoppers... →
Sendhil Mullainathan
It's hard to get people to empathize with the poor. You can get some people to sympathize with the poor, but to empathize is actually very hard... →