Ellen G. White Quotes

One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.

The poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different, diverse reasons, again seems to escape some people.

The poor will never cease out of the land.

Most people are poor at some time in their lives. But poverty is no excuse for committing crime.

There’s been an economic war going on in this country and the middle class and the poor have been losing..

In Canada, we just have rich and poor, but we don't constantly remind poor people about it.

I was brought up on a council estate. I know what it's like to be poor.

It's very hard for someone who makes $1,000 a year or some who makes less than $1 a day to care about the environment.

I'm not one of these people who thinks everyone born into privilege should wear sack cloth and ashes. But it's something I wrestle with. I know a lot of people who live below the poverty level and have for a long time and it makes them uneasy to think they'll have to interact with people from different economic levels. Everyone has some sort of load put on them, whatever the circumstances they're born into.

Get to know the poor in your country. Love them. Serve them.

We can talk about corporations all day long but my goal is to help the middle class, somebody who makes too much to be on government assistance but still lives paycheck to paycheck.

Nobody would watch Lifestyles of the Poor and the Unknown.

Indeed, as any one who has ever worked among the poor knows only too well, the brotherhood of man is no mere poet's dream, it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.

Poor people always lose in struggles.

Whether you're rich or poor, life's still cold-blooded.

There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.

I would say that many of the characters in my stories do not live in true poverty - they are not out on the street; they are not wondering if there will be anything to eat in the next week. They are people who are at the lower echelons of the economic strata.

All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.

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

The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.

I wanted to raise the voice of a lot of the people that I knew growing up, and this was, for the most part, poor people who had extraordinary dreams but also very amazing obstacles.

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.

We need to accept the principle that sometimes poor people will die just because they are poor.

Money can't buy poverty.