Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

What charitable 1 percenters can’t do is assume responsibility – America’s national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.

The reason people think it’s important to be white is that they think it’s important not to be black.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded.

The trouble ain’t that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain’t distributed right.

I care about helping to address these problems of social cohesion and understanding what economic problems people think exist.

Racism is real in this country.

Freedom is not enough.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

Our veterans who fall on hard times and find themselves without a home deserve more than just handwringing or kind words. They deserve real help that gets them back on their feet.

He that sows thorns should never go barefoot.

When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.

Next time I see you, remind me not to talk to you.

Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing.

I do remember how it was to be poor. I do remember that in my early years, we had to grow and raise all of our food, even our animals. And I remember in my early life, we didn’t even have electricity. So it was very, very hard times then.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

No one is pro-abortion.

One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.

These days there is a lot of poverty in the world, and that’s a scandal when we have so many riches and resources to give to everyone. We all have to think about how we can become a little poorer.

I haven’t been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.

The old-fashioned idea is that responsibility falls upon those who borrow and lend. Money was not borrowed by campesinos, assembly plant workers, or slum-dwellers. The mass of the population gained little from borrowing, indeed often suffered grievously from its effects.

I don’t think there is a single social issue I haven’t spoken on.

As far as the general public is concerned, I always tell people that you need to look like a dance teacher like you’re looking for a pediatrician.

To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

It is pretty ironic that the so-called ‚least advanced‘ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us, while the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.

Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.

Trouble brews when we steal from the poor and give to the rich.

If you are poor, you are not likely to live long.

Unrestrained liberalism only makes the strong stronger and the weak weaker and excludes the most excluded.

There’s no doubt that inequality destabilizes societies. I think the social science evidence on that front is crystal clear.

I’ve been very lucky, and therefore I owe it to try and reduce the inequity in the world. And that’s kind of a religious belief. I mean, it’s at least a moral belief.

I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.

There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.

It has so happened in all ages of the world that some have labored, and others have, without labor, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits.

My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry.

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

The ‚peace movement‘ exists only in the fantasies of the paranoid.

The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.

Bigotry is the sacred disease.

All I can say is I am sensitive to discrimination on any basis because I have experienced that upset.

If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone.

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.

Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.

The capitalist system is about taking from the Earth and from the other great commodity, labour. What’s happening with this system is that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, and the only way out of it is supposed to be growth. But growth is debt. It’s going to make the situation worse.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

As I said last week in the wake of the grand jury decision, I think Ferguson laid bare a problem that is not unique to St. Louis or that area, and is not unique to our time, and that is a simmering distrust that exists between too many police departments and too many communities of color.

Anti-Semitism is real in this country.

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

I haven’t gone out of my way to seek advice from people I don’t know.

As a kid, I got three meals a day. Oatmeal, miss-a-meal and no meal.

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.