Poor People

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:

    “It is commonly said by farmers, that a good pear or apple costs no more time or pains to rear, than a poor one; so I would have no work of art, no speech, or action, or thought, or friend, but the best.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “It seemed like this was one big Prozac nation, one big mess of malaise. Perhaps the next time half a million people gather for a protest march on the White House green it will not be for abortion rights or gay liberation, but because we’re all so bummed out.”
    —Elizabeth Wurtzel, U.S. author. Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America, p. 298, Houghton Mifflin (1994)