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 people, poor and/or people:

    “When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.”
    —Jean-Paul Sartre, French novelist, dramatist, philosopher, political activist. The Devil and the Good Lord, act 1, Gallimard (1951)

    “Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutor’d mind
    Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind;”
    —Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

    “The Persians are called the French of the East; we will call the Arabs Oriental Italians. A gifted noble people; a people of wild strong feelings, and of iron restraint over these: the characteristic of noblemindedness, of genius.”
    —Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)