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“Throughout the realm, the Hina Matsuri will be observed in the homes of rich and poor alike when a series of shelves, one rising above the other, and covered with a red cloth will be placed in the best room of the dwelling. Here the treasured dolls and their furniture will be displayed for one day only.”
Zoe Kincaid Penlington (1878–1944) said by 1944 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“it is widely known — and discussed (although not in print) — that not among the least of those who have persecuted the poor law-breakers in this respect have rich law-breaking friends and do themselves break the law and benefit by the scientific knowledge they are instrumental in sending others to prison for disseminating.”
Rose Pastor Stokes (1879–1933) said by 1933 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“She said that Kagame is different from other presidents whom, after elections, do not talk to the poor anymore but to the rich only.”
Agnes Mukabaranga (born 1953) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Presidential Candidate Endorses Kagame, Mukabaranga Said" ("ktpress.rw", July 23, 2017)
“The ancient commercial dimensions of the earth are swept away forever, and competition is now world-wide. This will compel the thorough training of American working people in industrial education, based on art and science. We need technical schools as we find them in the Old World, abundant and open alike to old and young, rich and poor, and as free to women as to men.”
Mary Livermore (1820–1905) said by 1905 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Work of all kinds is got from poor women, at prices that will not keep soul and body together; and then the articles thus made are sold for prices that give monstrous profits to the capitalist, who thus grows rich on the hard labors of our sex”
Catharine Beecher (1800–1878) said by 1878 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Climate change does not know the face of a woman, man, rich, or even the poor. We need to take environmental issues seriously. We need to plant trees; we need to make policies that touch human beings; we need to stop burning our bushes. The issue of wildlife is very important because we need to coexist with our nature.”
Priscilla Achapka wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We should make global development beneficial to all. Development is real only when all countries develop together. Prosperity and stability cannot be possible in a world where the rich become richer while the poor are made poorer. Modernization is not a privilege reserved for any single country. Frontrunners in development should sincerely help others develop, and provide more global public goods.”
Mao Ning (diplomat) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What we need is to shift the focus from race and color to rich and poor.”
James Meredith (born 1933) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nature is rich; but everywhere man, the heir of nature, is poor.”
Henry Demarest Lloyd (1847–1903) said by 1903 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Believe that only you can stop yourselves. It is not going to be about your parents, rich or poor; not the region you come from and whether it is endowed with resources or not. Remember that natural endowment is what it is; it did not come from the effort of anyone. It is nature that placed those resources there. That is why we call them natural resources.”
Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Second, fairness and justice should transcend the law of the jungle. All countries, big or small, strong or weak, rich or poor, are equal members of the international community. International affairs should be handled by all countries through consultation rather than be dictated by one or a few countries.”
Li Shangfu (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The commerciants of Olkney were renowned for their egalitarian spirit, judging rich and poor alike solely by the weight of their purses.”
Matthew Hughes (writer) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am promoting a government of national unity where people from all walks of life; rich, poor, young, old, abled, disabled or physically challenged, people from the business community, people from media, people from academia, those who have something to offer to our country”
Alan John Kyerematen (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One's education naturally begins at the cradle. But it may perfectly well begin at a later time too. Be born poor... or be born rich... it really doesn't matter. Art is only amplified by such diversity.”
Ben Shahn (1898–1969) said by 1969 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Though the people are poor in terms of development and financial security, they are very rich in their faith. Our people are longing for the Word of God and the Sacraments. If our people are not fed by the Word and the Sacraments and strengthened in their Catholic faith there is the danger that many more will leave the Church to join other denominations or cult groups.”
Siby Mathew Peedikayil (born 1970) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: MISSION APPEAL LETTER (2023) Congregation of the Mission
“It is necessary, in humanity, to use all those means that liberate and console as much as possible the conscious souls, poor or rich.”
Antonio Delfini (1907–1963) said by 1963 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The people who need your attention are the poor and not the rich.”
Gabriel Chiramel (1914–2017) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Church Institutions In Kerala Ignore Poor, Says Award-Winning Catholic Priest (17 April 2007) Union of Asian Catholic News
“We clearly live in an era where we have the most unequal societies of all time. The rich are becoming richer, the poor are becoming poorer.”
Aya Chebbi (born 1988) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“So he starts by asking me what I know about capitalism. “People were rich and there was a lot of corruption and a lot of crime,” I say. “And now we have socialism and people are poor and there’s a lot of corruption and a lot of crime.” He laughs. Anything I say about politics makes him laugh.”
Maureen F. McHugh (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the past, the rich bought houses and villas only on the hills of Lake Como, as Pliny did with Villa Commedia, in order not to lose the view and not to have floods. “The poor went to the shore to get their feet lapped by the water.”
Giorgio Gandola (born 1958) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Il Giornale, Giorgia Gandola, 7 March 2008
“The word of God comes through the prophet to denounce the unjust practices of the rich and powerful who grind the faces of the poor and oppress the widow and the orphan. The prophet also denounces the corruption of biblical religion itself into a religious establishment that has become purely cultic and has turned away from the social meaning of faith, which is justice and mercy.”
Rosemary Radford Ruether (1936–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Why do we Catholics fight the communists - the people with whom it is said we have most antagonism - over the question of whether the soul is mortal or is immortal instead of agreeing that hunger is indeed mortal? Certainly, we Catholics who ourselves want the church to be poor are not going to fight with those who are against a rich church.”
Camilo Torres Restrepo (1929–1966) said by 1966 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No poor man can afford to have many friends. They would ruin him. Indeed, friendship is a luxury which should be indulged in with caution even by the rich.”
Marcus Clarke (1846–1881) said by 1881 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On Friendship", in A Marcus Clarke Reader (1963)
“A law was made... allowing every person who owned twenty negroes to go home. It gave us the blues; we wanted twenty negroes. Negro property suddenly became very valuable, and there was raised the howl of "rich man's war, poor man's fight." The glory of the war, the glory of the South, the glory and the pride of our volunteers had no charms for the conscript.”
Samuel R. Watkins (1839–1901) said by 1901 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This mentality has produced a situation whereby on all continents of the world, the rich always believe they are “better” than the poor.”
Joséphine Ouédraogo (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The revolution was to an important extent one against and not for the rising forces of capitalism. In addition it can be interpreted...in terms of a general tension and social antagonism between the poor and the rich.”
Alfred Cobban (1901–1968) first seen 1964 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Social Interpretation of the French Revolution (1964), p. 168
“Ugh, This is why I date poor people. Rich people annoy me.”
Stassi Schroeder (born 1988) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Potatoe is the English name of the tuberose-rooted esculent Lycopersicon, or , of botanical writers. It was evidently so called on account of its similarity to the batata, the name of the , which was known in Europe at least thirty-three years before this country was blessed with the potatoe, which now forms alike the rich man's luxury and the poor man's bread!”
Henry Phillips (horticulturist) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Basically, I always try to reconcile poor and rich materials. It is an anti-ghetto and nonconformist idea about the arrangement of space and light.”
Andrée Putman (1925–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Russian Empire was deeply fissured between the government and the tsar’s subjects; between the capital and the provinces; between the educated and the uneducated; between Western and Russian ideas; between the rich and the poor; between privilege and oppression; between contemporary fashion and centuries-old custom.”
Robert Service (historian) first seen 1997 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A History of Twentieth-Century Russia (1997) pt. 1, ch. 1
“It is necessary to take into account the politics of your time, the eternal struggle against intolerance, in favor of human rights and of less inequality between rich and poor countries. In this whole context, art and photography are very powerful platforms of resistance.”
Joaquim Paiva (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The man who dies poor is rich if he only holds fast his honesty and his hope.”
Robert Collyer (clergyman) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The flat tax is the ultimate form of injustice, inequality and mockery, because the idea of lowering taxes for the rich is paid for by the poor. It's an idea that results in a lack of services for those who can't afford a San Raffaele health plan to get treatment.”
Elly Schlein (born 1985) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I would rather be a famous and rich writer than an unknown and poor one. Every writer is at liberty to make that choice or any other choice”
Obari Gomba wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Where you come from doesn’t matter at all. Whether you’re from a rich region or family or a poor one, you can still achieve your goals at school or in sport if you concentrate enough and dedicate yourself to them completely.”
Maria Mutola (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.”
Karl Marx (misattributed) first seen 1912 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Attributed to Leo Tolstoy in Romance and Reality (1912) by Holbrook Jackson.
“Many shiver from want of defence against the cold; but there is vastly more suffering among the rich from absurd and criminal modes of dress, which fashion has sanctioned, than among the poor from deficiency of raiment.”
William Ellery Channing (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The poor object to being governed badly, while the rich object to being governed at all.”
G. K. Chesterton (attributed) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Grace at the Table: Ending Hunger in God's World (1999) by David M. Beckmann abd Arthur R. Simon, p. 156
“It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.”
Michel de Montaigne (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.”
Sophie Swetchine (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Art thou poor, yet hast thou golden slumbers? O sweet content! Art thou rich, yet is thy mind perplex'd? O punishment!”
Thomas Dekker (writer) (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“An old man once said, "When I was young I was poor; when old I became rich; but in each condition I found disappointment. When the faculties of enjoyment were, I had not the means; when the means came, the faculties were gone.”
Valérie de Gasparin (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Poor people are more greedy than rich people”
Robert Kiyosaki (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Rich honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a poor house; as your pearl in your foul oyster.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Give what thou canst, without Thee we are poor; And with Thee rich, take what Thou wilt away.”
William Cowper (1731–1800) said by 1800 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“For President Mkapa to use that jet to go to Addis Ababa to the African Commission meeting... to tell Mr Blair, 'Please give us more money so that we can fight poverty in Tanzania,' it's a real shame.”
Ibrahim Lipumba (born 1952) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Described taking the new Presidential Jet to an African Commission meeting to discuss poverty as really embarrassing. 2004-10-06..
“Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.”
Woody Allen (born 1935) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Your race, in its poverty, has unquestionably one really effective weapon—laughter. Power, Money, Persuasion, Supplication, Persecution—these can lift at a colossal humbug,—push it a little—crowd it a little—weaken it a little, century by century: but only Laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of Laughter nothing can stand.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) first seen 1897 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Chronicle of Young Satan" (ca. 1897–1900, unfinished), published posthumously in Mark Twain's Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts (1969), ed. William Merriam Gibson (pp. 165–166 in the 2005 paperback printing, )
“Your money does not cause my poverty. Refusal to believe this is at the bottom of most bad economic thinking.”
P. J. O'Rourke (1947–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source