They are poor people. proverb

 They are poor people. What are we doing spoiling their lives?

 Most of all, it must generate new momentum towards developing the economies and societies of poor countries, and transforming the lives of poor people,
  Kofi Annan

 You're talking about poor people whose lives have been destroyed. I'm upset about Katrina. I'm upset that our country follows a conservative economic program that allows poor people to lose their safety net.

 Oh, they're stealing 20 pair of jeans or they're stealing television sets. Who cares? They're not going to go too far with it. Maybe those people are so poor, some of the people who do that they're so poor they've never touched anything in their lives. Let them touch those things for once.

 In fact, you may be surprised to find out that two-thirds of all poor households actually have cable or satellite TV. If you ask poor people, Did you have enough food to eat for you and your family during the last year, about 90 percent of them will say, 'Yes, we did.' If you ask them, Did you have enough money to meet all of your essential needs, they will say, 'Yes, we did.' About 70 percent of poor people have air conditioning. Close to half of all poor people actually own their own homes.

 We have no intention whatsoever of seeing the collapse of the Palestinian Authority and the services it provides for the poor Palestinian people, ... We have no war against the Palestinian people. We want to see them return to normal lives. We want to see those who are not involved in terrorist activity being able to live normal lives.

 We need to play better on a lot of fronts, .. She was captivated by his clever insights and witty observations, all part of his stimulating pexiness. . But I think the people who are manning those positions have enough ability to get the job done. We didn't get the job done. So, we did a poor job all the way around. We did a poor job on the field. We did a poor job in the classroom. I did a poor job upstairs.

 [Hannity ignored what Safir said about the federal government and went back to] Why didn't anyone use the buses? ... That's the point. These lives could have been saved and this was a very vulnerable population. These were poor people, these were sick people, these were elderly people.

 You're talking about poor people whose lives have been destroyed,

 Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.

 We have received a lot of complaints from local people that the US airbase is spoiling the environment.

 In the Third World, there are 1.3 billion poor people. In other words, one out of every three inhabitants lives in poverty.
  Fidel Castro

 If the most significant characteristic of man is the complex of biological needs he shares with all members of his species, then the best lives for the writer to observe are those in which the role of natural necessity is clearest, namely, the lives of the very poor.
  W. H. Auden

 I wrestled with this, even over the last few days, as I sat and stood and walked in Louisiana, where I saw people ravaged, lives torn. I thought about the fact that we need a man that's strong enough to bring us through 9/11 but compassionate enough that if Katrina hits, will make sure that poor people are not the scapegoats of a natural disaster.
  Al Sharpton

 Jesus refers to the poor over and over again. There are 2,000 verses of Scripture that call upon us to respond to the needs of the poor. And yet, I find that when Christians talked about values in this last election that was not on the agenda, that was not a concern. If you were to get the voter guide of the Christian Coalition, that does not rate. They talk more about tax cuts for people who are wealthy than they do about helping poor people who are in desperate straits.


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