But I still do believe that there are useful things to say about Elvis Presley, including what his own ordinariness as a poor Southerner says about 20th-century hero-making.
What makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith it places in the ability of the poor to make decisions for themselves.
Our ministry also supports orphanages in the U.S. and overseas, thousands of poor children in Latin America, drug centers for addicted men, and a drug center in Israel.
For me 'Oliver Twist' is a political novel. It is a furious critique of the treatment of orphans and poor children who were forced to spend their early lives in ghastly institutions.
The poor Oscars - they always get slammed in the press.
Since the Church is to be servant to the poor, it is our fault if that wealth is not channeled to help the poor in our world.
Television preachers extract money from the poor to live in a style and to indulge in shameful acts which equal or outdo the worst of the Renaissance Popes.
High school wasn't so bad though because, by then, I had worked out that there were far more nerdy kids and poor kids than there were rich, popular kids, so, at the very least, we had them outnumbered.
Desperation is a fact of life in many poor, overcrowded countries.
Most elderly are retirees with relatively low incomes. But some may possess assets, and they will be classified as poor. As such, the elderly poverty rate could be overstated.
I was a farm kid from the plains of South Venezuela, from a very poor family. I grew up in a palm tree house with an earthen floor.
When I was growing up, my family was so poor we couldn't afford to pay attention.
My record was so bad that I was first rejected by the Peace Corps as a poor risk and possible troublemaker and was accepted as a volunteer only after a great deal of explaining and arguing.
Consistently rated the most peaceable of all countries in the world by the Global Peace Index, Iceland has reduced its military expenditure to zero, has no armed forces, and has reduced the inequality gap between rich and poor.
I do a very poor man's pedal steel on the Stratocaster.
Aside from the poor example it sets, the federal government enables reckless spending on public-employee pensions by offering hope of assistance from Washington if things get bad enough.
The federal government has an exceptionally poor record of behaving responsibly with Americans' personal information when entrusted with it.
Most philanthropists would still rather donate to elite schools, concert halls or religious groups than help the poor or sick.
The man of science is a poor philosopher.
I think I'm a very poor piano player.
