No one thought the poor more undeserving than the poor themselves.
– Matthew Desmond
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- By and large, the poor do not want some small life. They don’t want to game the system or eke out an existence; they want to thrive and contribute. – Matthew Desmond
- In 1930, the death rate for Milwaukee’s blacks was nearly 60 percent higher than the citywide rate, due in large part to poor housing conditions. – Matthew Desmond
- When the universe presented unexpected gifts to the undeserving, how else were they to react, except with sheer paranoia? – Matthew S Williams
- The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor. – Dorothy Day
- Eviction is a cause, not just a condition, of poverty. – Matthew Desmond
- No moral code or ethical principle, no piece of scripture or holy teaching, can be summoned to defend what we have allowed our country to become. – Matthew Desmond
- It was not that low-income renters didn’t know their rights. They just knew those rights would cost them. – Matthew Desmond
- Families with children were turned away in as many as 7 in 10 housing searches. – Matthew Desmond
- Our cities have become unaffordable to our poorest families, and this problem is leaving a deep and jagged scar on our next generation. – Matthew Desmond
- All POOR wish to become RICH,BUT all RICH wish the POOR remain POOR. – shaikh mustafa
- accept yourself, it will inspire others to do the same for themselves. – Desmond D Green
- Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves,As souls only understand souls. – Walt Whitman
- Feeling undeserving is never compatible with the ability to attract or create wealth. – Stephen Richards
- If we don’t embrace them, then we are as undeserving of life as the caveman who freezes to death because he’s afraid to start a fire. – Dan Brown
- Nature had squandered an unreasonable quantity of male beauty on this undeserving creature. – Lisa Kleypas
- You mistake us for abstaining your kind from undeserving happiness when all we do is to fight for our cause. We are soldiers, not rebels. – Calvin Vronsky
- To realize God’s undeserving love is to continually love others – Sunday Adelaja
- You are the one star I wish upon nightly, praying your glory will fall from the heavens and land in my undeserving arms. – Richelle E Goodrich
- Forgiveness is most Christlike when it is given to the undeserving. – Jim George
- When everyone is poor you don’t know you’re poor. My father worked so some of the boys thought I was actually rich. – Stan Grant
- He thought of his wife, of his son, of his youth. He thought of life. He thought of death and then he thought of life again. – Teodor Flonta
- When they saw the star, they rejoiced exceedingly with great joy. Matthew 2:10 – Matthew
- Life is in a constant state of change and by evolving in the present with change – Matthew Donnelly – Matthew Donnelly
- Whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive. (Matthew 21:22) – Matthew Bible
- The middle class were invented to give the poor hope; the poor, to make the rich feel special; the rich, to humble the middle class. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Always, it is the poor people who pay. And always, it is the poor people’s women who pay the most. – David Mitchell
- It is the consumers who make poor people rich and rich people poor. – Ludwig von Mises
- Whether it is big or small, the size of a poor man’s yard incessantly reminds him that he is poor. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- You could become rich if you were born financially poor, But you can’t stay rich if you are poor minded. – Rafaa Khiari
- The rich are poor without the poor’s acknowledgment of money. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- They [Harvard academia] liked the poor, but didn’t like the smell of the poor. – Chris Hedges
- Back in Russia we were dirt-poor. Here in the West we are still poor but have risen above the dirt to tower alongside stalks of grass! – Vera Nazarian
- Poor people have been voting for big government liberalism for 50 years… and they are still poor. – Charles Barkley
- The poor stay poor here because they do not save enough. – Abhijit V Banerjee
- Everyone is poor in one way or another, so there is no need to worry of where you belong, we are all rich and poor at the same time. – Auliq Ice
- You can’t change things. That’s life. Poor stays poor, rich says rich, and those two, they will never meet. – Antonia Michaelis
- Being poor is a mere trifle. It is being known to be poor that is the sting. – Jerome K Jerome
- Rich must thank poor; if poor unite, rich will have no place to hide. – Vinita Kinra
- Markets cannot meet the needs of the very poor. The desperately poor are not consumers who will create an immediate profit. – Jeffrey D Sachs
- Oh, poor, poor fellow!’ said Mrs. Elliot with a remorse that was sincere, though her congratulations would not have been. – EM Forster