#poor

I am a living illustration of Bosnian mixing and converting. My grandparents lived in eastern Herzegovina. Very poor. The Turks came and brought Islam. There were three brothers in the family. One was Orthodox Christian. The other two took Islam to survive. ↗

— Emir Kusturica

#bosnian #brothers #brought #came #christian

The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity. ↗

— Abraham Kuyper

#churches #existence #like #must #poor

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#few #free #free society #help #many

What makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith it places in the ability of the poor to make decisions for themselves. ↗

— Paul Wellstone

#attractive #community #decisions #especially #faith

You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help. ↗

— Jean Kerr

#better #help #hope #money #person

We have no right to luxuries while the poor want bread. ↗

— Thomas Day

#luxuries #poor #right #want #while

People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#complaint #even #me #people #poorly

A majority, perhaps as many as 75 percent, of abortion clinics are in areas with high minority populations. Abortion apologists will say this is because they want to serve the poor. You don't serve the poor, however, by taking their money to terminate their children. ↗

— Alveda King

#apologists #areas #because #children #clinics

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

It's not my fault that there is this gap between rich and poor, it is the fault of governments. I want a different world. One where I don't wake up thinking I'm so lucky to be able to feed my daughter. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#between #daughter #different #different world #fault