(Regarding check-cashing places):
It's hitting me how poor this really is: I'm standing in a long line to pay someone to give me my pay. So, technically, they get paid before I do, and it's my damn check.
Tags: humor money poor cash poor-people broke
You have to be objective about money to use it fairly. It doesn't make you any better or any more useful than any other person. Even if you use your money to help people...that doesn't make you better than somebody who has no money but is sympathetic and genuinely loving to fellow human beings.
Keith HaringTags: money kindness rich poor
How reprehensible it is when those blessed with commodities insist on ignoring the poor. Better to torment them, force them into indentured servitude, inflict compulsion and blows—this at least produces a connection, fury and a pounding heart, and these too constitute a form of relationship. But to cower in elegant homes behind golden garden gates, fearful lest the breath of warm humankind touch you, unable to indulge in extravagances for fear they might be glimpsed by the embittered oppressed, to oppress and yet lack the courage to show yourself as an oppressor, even to fear the ones you are oppressing, feeling ill at ease in your own wealth and begrudging others their ease, to resort to disagreeable weapons that require neither true audacity nor manly courage, to have money, but only money, without splendor: That’s what things look like in our cities at present
Robert WalserTags: money wealth courage inequality class-warfare oppression cowardice poverty neighborhoods urban poor city urbanization
I felt like a kid standing in the world's greatest video arcade without any quarters, unable to do anything but walk around and watch the other kids play.
Ernest ClineIt is the privilege of the rich
To waste the time of the poor
To water with tears in secret
A tree that grows in secret
That bears fruit in secret
That ripened falls to the ground in secret
And manures the parent tree
Oh the wicked tree of hatred and the secret
The sap rising and the tears falling.
Tags: rich work hope employment poor childe-rolandine
You say you care about the poor? Tell me their names.
Craig GreenfieldGood works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters.
Criss JamiTags: life inspirational compassion empathy faith jesus sympathy value worth giving helping-others beautiful good-works poor consideration works unconditional-love the-one divine-love god-like christ-like divine-works
As they were walking, a beggar came up, holding his hand out and crying, "Baksheesh! Baksheesh!"
Mike kept on going but Mitchell stopped. Digging into his pocket, he pulled out twenty paise and placed it in the beggar's dirty hand.
Mike said, "I used to give to beggars when I first came here. But then I realized, it's hopeless. It never stops."
"Jesus said you should give to whoever asks you," Mitchell said.
"Yeah, well," Mike said, "obviously Jesus was never in Calcutta.
Tags: jesus poverty charity poor beggars calcutta
Thank God (my wife) and I were both born poor
so the concept of fidelity was allowed to take root in us.
Tags: humor marriage spirit fidelity poor cheating
Stealing it, in a sick kind of sense, was like earning it.
Markus ZusakTags: poor
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