Poor Condition

Famous quotes containing the words poor and/or condition:

“We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.”
—Lionel Trilling (1905–1975)

“If the condition of things which we were made for is not yet, what were any reality which we can substitute? We will not be shipwrecked on a vain reality.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)