Poor people or Poor People may refer to:
- People living in poverty
- Poor People – initial translated versions are known as "Poor Folk"; first novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Famous quotes containing the words poor and/or people:
“I am very much afraid that to the fiction writer the fact that we shall always have the poor with us is a source of satisfaction, for it means, essentially, that he will always be able to find someone like himself.”
—Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)
“If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)