Social service has always been my priority, and I want to help the poor.
Poor Georgia O'Keeffe. Death didn't soften the opinions of the art world toward her paintings.
If we want to make this great State of Pakistan happy and prosperous, we should wholly and solely concentrate on the well-being of the people, and especially of the masses and the poor.
I grew up in South Florida, and my family was pretty poor. We weren't your upper-class whites by any means.
America's soldiery, like its war dead, comes disproportionately from its southern states and from its aspiring poor - both white and black.
I worked with these liberal elites for 28 years at CBS News, and they were always throwing around the term 'white trash,' by which they meant poor southerners who didn't go to Harvard. I'm not sure why that makes them trash.
If you care to define the South as a poor, rural region with lousy race relations, that South survives only in geographical shreds and patches and most Southerners don't live there any more.
In financial terms, my sense is that the distribution of wealth, unequal as it is, is self-perpetuating, and, especially in a linked and accelerating world, the rich get ever more quickly richer while the poor get ever more speedily poorer.
Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.
I didn't really want to be a filmmaker, growing up. Other than Spike Lee's movies, I would think, 'Where is a place for me?' We were so damn poor that it just seemed too far beyond.
We were so poor when I was a kid that I had a sister who was stamped, 'Made In Japan.'
We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.
Last year, when we were in Mobile, Al., covering Hurricane Ivan, we heard the stories of poor people, many of them black stranded downtown because they had no way out.
In the end, the humanities can only be defended by stressing how indispensable they are; and this means insisting on their vital role in the whole business of academic learning, rather than protesting that, like some poor relation, they don't cost much to be housed.
In India there are more poor people in three states... than there are in the whole of sub-Saharan Africa.
'Give me your poor.' It didn't say, 'Give me your poor who can afford a $680 citizenship.' If I had my way, it would be free. If I had my way, the state would subsidize every eligible application, period.
I believe we ought to subsidize some health care for the poor, but Medicare subsidizes everyone's health care.
Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
Suffice it to say, I'm not poor.