Many intellectuals feel themselves to be Supermen who are spokesmen for the people. But in my opinion, they're to be pitied. Under Mao's dictatorship, these poor sheep suffered the same fate as everyone else.
I've been to those places where it's 'poor, pitiful me.'
I joined Planned Parenthood because I wanted to help poor women with real health care needs.
Historically, central planners have generally done a poor job of managing economic resources - this we've known since the time of the Pharaohs.
Nothing could do more to help the world's poor than to make fossil fuels cheap and plentiful.
When the mayor of Sao Paulo wanted to increase bus fare by 21 centavos in 2013, the country erupted in the largest mass protests in its history. It wasn't a dramatic hike - just nine cents - but a perfect symbol of the increasing burdens on the working poor, forced to fend with an inadequate system, insensitive to their plight.
I remember standing on a medal podium at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, imbued with a sense that if you won enough basketball games, there was no such thing as poor, backward, country, female, or inferior.
Being an immigrant mother can be hard, but being a poor immigrant mother is much harder. You don't generally get to sit in cafes polishing your French by reading 'Le Monde.'
Some very poor countries run great vaccination systems, and some richer ones run terrible programs.
Abortion politics have distracted all sides from what is really essential: a major aid campaign to improve midwifery, prenatal care and emergency obstetric services in poor countries.
ITC works to help firms in poor countries become more competitive and overcome the barriers that are keeping their goods and services out of international markets.
If you neglect those who are currently poor and stable, you may create more poor and unstable people. There has been a tremendous concentration of donor interest in countries that are seen as particularly fragile - but it becomes harder to mobilise money for sub-Saharan, plain poor countries.
When people move from poor countries to America, they quickly adapt in at least one way - their consumption habits.
The shock caused by the September 11 events has also lead to a thorough reflection on the existing disparity between rich and poor countries, on the misery of populations of the South.
In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.
Rich countries have been sending aid to poor countries for the last 60 years. And, by and large, this has failed.
Poor countries are poor because they are wasting their resources.
I've always enjoyed poor health.
Kids from financially distressed households are twice as likely to have to repeat a grade and more than two-and-a-half more times to struggle with poor health later in life.
As a young child, I suffered from poor health. My parents encouraged me to swim, which really improved my condition.
