Poor Law Amendment

Famous quotes containing the words poor, law and/or amendment:

“Give me the free and poor inheritance
Of our own kind, not furniture
Of education, or the prophet’s pose,
The general cause of words, the hero’s stance,
The ambitions incommensurable with flesh,”
—Karl Shapiro (b. 1913)

“These, having not the law, are a law unto themselves.”
—Bible: New Testament St. Paul, in Romans, 2:14.

“[Asserting] important First Amendment rights ... why should [executions] be the one area that is conducted behind closed doors?... Why shouldn’t executions be public?”
—Phil Donahue (b. 1935)