#poor people

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

#come #control #destiny #education #get

Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education. ↗

— Angela Davis

#education #especially #found #higher #higher education

So it's a mistake for someone to think that they bailed New York out. They did assist us, for which we are grateful, but it's a mistake to say we bailed New York out by giving them a grant of money to help those poor people who throw it away on welfare. ↗

— David Dinkins

#away #bailed #did #giving #grant

To a billion people around the world surviving on just a dollar a day, the question of what to eat tonight is more about life and death than about recipes. The struggle of poor people around the globe weighs heavily on me, especially now that I am a mother, which is why I work with Oxfam. ↗

— Giada De Laurentiis

#am #around #billion #day #death

For many of those who had historically supported welfare programs in the broadest sense, it was perfectly reasonable to enact legislation in which poor people were the objects of efforts to assist them. ↗

— Barney Frank

#broadest #broadest sense #efforts #enact #had

We are privileged. There are poor people out there. We must to do something to make them privileged. ↗

— Antonia Fraser

#must #out #people #poor #poor people

I don't think anyone sets out to malign poor people but certainly that's what we do through organizations such as the World Trade Organization, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. ↗

— Bob Geldof

#bank #certainly #fund #i #international

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

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

I think the point about ActionAid is what it's asking people to do is engage with poor people in developing countries and understand what their lives are like and understand how the way we live our lives impacts on theirs. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#asking #countries #developing #engage #how