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Poor People Quotes

On hardship, hope, and the gap between the two.

These Poor People quotes come from voices describing crowded childhood homes, microloans aimed at those banks overlooked, and the striking gap between a country's overall wealth and the daily reality of its poorest citizens.

Anything that is not good for the poor people of India is not the policy of the Congress Party.

Quotes by Sanjay Gandhi

I have poor people skills, and I cannot become a minister.

Quotes by Pranav Mistry

Dependency arguments often come from elites - either aid agencies or governments - and say something about attitudes to poor people.

Quotes by Paul Harvey

I was from very poor people: 11 of us in a two-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn. I wanted the large houses, the cars, jets, and yacht.

Quotes by Neil Sedaka

Emotion Quotes

I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over.

Quotes by Muhammad Yunus

India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people.

Quotes by Manmohan Singh

We are not Marxist or capitalist; we are for the poor people.

Quotes by Mamata Banerjee

I founded Samasource because I was frustrated by traditional approaches to poverty alleviation. Even those approaches focused on jobs often equip poor people with skills for which there is little market demand.

Quotes by Leila Janah

Ours is not a poor country and even though we are now a poor people, there should be no room for the despondency that has settled on large sections of the population.

Quotes by John Agyekum Kufuor

Identity Quotes

The poor people of the world tend to be the places that al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups can recruit.

Quotes by James Wolfensohn

Poor people put a low value on themselves and their efforts.

Quotes by Daymond John

It is plain that we don't care about our poor people except to exploit them as cheap labor and victimize them through excessive rents and consumer prices.

Quotes by Coretta Scott King

We need to make sure middle-class people are able to pay the bills. We need to make sure that poor people don't starve. Those are values, too.

Quotes by Chuck Schumer

We decided in the mid-1960s that all poor people are the same: they are all poor. We know they're poor because we have defined a poverty line, and they're all underneath it.

Quotes by Charles Murray

Inequality Quotes

The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them.

Quotes by Bill Vaughan

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.

Quotes by Barney Frank

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

Quotes by Antonia Fraser

Irrespective of economic theories, we will take decisions in the larger interest of the poor people.

Quotes by Amit Shah

Frequently Asked Questions

What does the Poor People quotes page cover?
It gathers quotes about growing up with little, lending to people overlooked by banks, and the gap between a country's overall wealth and its citizens' daily hardship.
Why do people search for quotes about poor people?
Readers researching poverty and inequality often want first-person or reflective language, and these quotes offer honest, grounded perspectives rather than statistics.
Is there a quote about a crowded childhood home?
Yes, one quote describes growing up as one of eleven people in a two-bedroom apartment, later wanting the large houses and cars that felt out of reach.
Does any quote mention lending money to the poor?
Yes, one quote recalls proposing that a bank lend money to poor people, and how startled the bankers were by the idea.
What's a good next stop after reading these poverty-related quotes?
See Inequality quotes on the wider gap between rich and poor, or Society quotes on how communities respond to hardship.

For more, see Inequality quotes on the wider gap between rich and poor, or Society quotes on how communities respond to hardship.