"In a country well governed poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed wealth is something to be ashamed of."

Confucius on poverty and the poor
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"Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary."

Niebuhr, Reinhold on democracy   

"At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst."

Aristotle on animals
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"Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit."

La Bruyere, Jean De on ridicule
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"When ever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is safe."

Burke, Edmund on freedom
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"Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe."

Douglass, Frederick on oppression
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"If the rich could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living."

Proverb, Yiddish on poverty and the poor   

"Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on peace
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"I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty."

Marx, Groucho on poverty and the poor
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"Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth who values himself by his financial net worth is poorer than a poor man who values himself by his intrinsic self worth."

Madwed, Sidney on poverty and the poor
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"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."

Kerr, Jean on poverty and the poor
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"If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich."

Kennedy, John F. on poverty and the poor
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"A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face."

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) on poverty and the poor   

"Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the one who most needs shelter."

Hugo, Victor on poverty and the poor   

"Oh, God! that bread should be so dear! And flesh and blood so cheap!"

Hood, Thomas on poverty and the poor   

"That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen."

Harrington, Michael on poverty and the poor   

"Four specters haunt the Poor -- Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are going to drive hunger from the hearth. We mean to banish the workhouse from the horizon of every workman in the land."

George, David Lloyd on poverty and the poor   

"I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life."

France, Anatole on poverty and the poor
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"What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness."

Shaw, George Bernard on riches