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“By Rachel Corrie, aged 10 ¡ª 1990

I¡¯m here for other children.
I¡¯m here because I care.
I¡¯m here because children everywhere are suffering and because forty thousand people die each day from hunger.
I¡¯m here because those people are mostly children.
We have got to understand that the poor are all around us and we are ignoring them.
We have got to understand that these deaths are preventable.
We have got to understand that people in third world countries think and care and smile and cry just like us.
We have got to understand that they dream our dreams and we dream theirs.
We have got to understand that they are us. We are them.
My dream is to stop hunger by the year 2000.
My dream is to give the poor a chance.
My dream is to save the 40,000 people who die each day.
My dream can and will come true if we all look into the future and see the light that shines there.
If we ignore hunger, that light will go out.
If we all help and work together, it will grow and burn free with the potential of tomorrow.”
― Rachel Corrie

“Indolent and unworthy the beggar may be¡ªbut that is not your concern: It is better, said Joseph Smith, to feed ten impostors than to run the risk of turning away one honest petition.”
― Hugh Nibley, Approaching Zion

“The educated man pictures a horde of submen, wanting only a day's liberty to loot his house, burn his books, and set him to work minding a machine or sweeping out a lavatory. 'Anything,' he thinks, 'any injustice, sooner than let that mob loose.' He does not see that since there is no difference between the mass of rich and poor, there is no question of setting the mob loose. The mob is in fact loose now, and--in the shape of rich men--is using its power to set up enormous treadmills of boredom, such as 'smart' hotels.”
― George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London

“You say you care about the poor? Tell me their names.”
― Craig & Nayhouy Greenfield

“I have always found that it is far more convenient to be rich rather than to be poor.”
― Amanda Quick , Burning Lamp

“(Regarding check-cashing places):

It's hitting me how poor this really is: I'm standing in a long line to pay someone to give me my pay. So, technically, they get paid before I do, and it's my damn check.”
― Angela Nissel, The Broke Diaries: The Completely True and Hilarious Misadventures of a Good Girl Gone Broke

“And, conversely, she went on to herself, sneering at the Grand Duke's palace, poverty is wasted on the poor, who never know how to make the best of things, are only the rich without money, are just as useless at looking after themselves, can't handle their cash just like the rich can't, always squandering it on bright, pretty, useless things in just the same way.”
― Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus

“As they were walking, a beggar came up, holding his hand out and crying, "Baksheesh! Baksheesh!"
Mike kept on going but Mitchell stopped. Digging into his pocket, he pulled out twenty paise and placed it in the beggar's dirty hand.
Mike said, "I used to give to beggars when I first came here. But then I realized, it's hopeless. It never stops."
"Jesus said you should give to whoever asks you," Mitchell said.
"Yeah, well," Mike said, "obviously Jesus was never in Calcutta.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot

“Tipsy, they tumbled early into bed - to get as much sleep as they could. So they would feel less hunger. The summer catch had been poor; there wasn't much food. They ate with care and looked sideways at the old: the old were gluttons, everybody knew it, and what was the good of feeding them? It wouldn't harm them to starve a little.
The hungry dogs howled. The women rinsed the children's bellies with hot water three times a day, so they wouldn't cry so much for food. The old starved silently. ("The North")”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, The Dragon: Fifteen Stories

“Mother Teresa would seek no other pulpit than the hovels of the poor, and no other sermon than her works of love, performed for the unloved, in God's name.”
― Joseph Langford, Mother Teresa's Secret Fire: The Encounter That Changed Her Life and How It Can Transform Your Own

“Back in Russia we were dirt-poor. Here in the West we are still poor but have risen above the dirt to tower alongside stalks of grass!”
― Vera Nazarian

“Thank God (my wife) and I were both born poor
so the concept of fidelity was allowed to take root in us.”
― Allan Wolf, The Watch That Ends the Night

“Tax work less. Tax wealth more.”
― Gary Stevenson

“This is the basis for the most important critique of microfinance. The poor are not entrepreneurs. The idea that more than a few will turn tiny loans into a viable business is simply unrealistic.”
― Ian Smillie, Freedom From Want: The Remarkable Success Story of BRAC, the Global Grassroots Organization That's Winning the Fight Against Poverty

“But one should have pity for the poor, and, for God¡¯s sake, show them friendship, because they are flesh just as we are, our fellow women and men. And God himself commands us to do it and proclaims it in Scripture: ¡°Blessed be he who does good for them and who will offer them alms!”
― Christine de Pizan, The Book of the Mutability of Fortune (Volume 52)

“They won¡¯t want to put themselves in my shoes because they have Chuck Taylors and Stan Smiths while I have Sams Clubs.”
― GLEN NESBITT, SUS: Short Unpredictable Stories

“Because my mom didn¡¯t cook much, my little sister and I ate at McDonald¡¯s so often we thought Grimmis was our dad.”
― GLEN NESBITT, SUS: Short Unpredictable Stories

“poverty makes man humble but his true character reveals when he becomes rich”
― Prince El Fati

“Every country has its myths, and one that successful Indians liked to indulge was a romance of instability and adaptation¡ªthe idea that their country¡¯s rapid rise derived in part from the chaotic unpredictability of daily life. [¡­] In India, a land of few safe assumptions, chronic uncertainty was said to have helped produce a nation of quick-witted, creative problem-solvers. Among the poor, there was no doubt that instability fostered ingenuity, but over time the lack of a link between effort and result could become debilitating.”
― Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity

“Both rich and poor are really hateful in themselves. For my part I hate the poor and look forward eagerly to their extermination. I pity the rich a little, but am equally bent on their extermination. The working classes, the business classes, the professional classes, the propertied classes, the ruling classes, are each more odious than the other: they have no right to live: I should despair if I did not know that they will all die presently, and that there is no need on earth why they should be replaced by people like themselves. I do not want any human child to be brought up as I was brought up, nor as any child I have known was brought up.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“Sympathy isn't just a virtue, it's a privilege. Lucky people will feel more fortunate when they see unfortunate people. Healthy people will feel more healthy when they see disabled people. They'll be willing to spend a lot of money and time on this experience.”
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“Men fall over themselves for a beautiful woman, women fall over themselves for a rich man. So who's the more greedy? At least money is useful. And it doesn't fade with time.”
― Beatriz Williams

“Not all of those who cry "The poor, the poor!" will enter the kingdom of heaven.”
― Michael Novak

“until we embrace our mutual brokenness, our work with low-income people is likely to do far more harm than good.”
― Steve Corbett, When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty without Hurting the Poor...and Yourself

“If there isn't a blood of poor the rich won't survive.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“Poverty in America is actively denied by the way we define it: as falling below an arbitrary income line at a single moment in time. The official poverty line makes poverty looks like a regrettable anomaly that can be explained away by poor decisions, individual behavior, and cultural pathology. In fact, poverty is an often-temporary state experienced cyclically by a huge number of people from wildly different backgrounds displaying a nearly infinite range of behaviors.”
― Virginia Eubanks, Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor

“All these wasteful expenditures of the rich, only a few of which have been briefly enumerated, are extenuated by hired apologists on the ground that they give many people work in the luxury trades, in domestic service, in the garages, stables, and gardens, and on board the yachts.
It is not realized, it seems, that if the money wasted by the rich in personal indulgence were taken in taxes and put into the building of needed hospitals, schools, playgrounds, clinics, low-rent apartment buildings, farm homes, sanatoria, rest homes, and recreation clubs for the mass of Americans, the persons now given employment by the wealthy would obtain work of a more constructive character in these other fields.”
― Ferdinand Lundberg, America's 60 Families

“Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing”
― William Shakespeare

“The purpose of religion is to keep the poor from killing the rich”
― Napol¨¦on Bonaparte

“A rich man is poor when he acts like a poor man.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov