Poor

Famous quotes containing the word 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.”
—Michael Harrington (1928–1989)

“O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-work, and how ill requited! Why should our endeavour be so loved, and the performance so loathed?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“The poor world is almost six thousand years old, and in all this time there was not any man died in his own person,
videlicet, in a love-cause.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)