Poor Whites Quotes

#1. Likewise, in any social hierarchy, people unsure of their own position will try to emphasize it by maltreating those they think rank below. I've read that this is why poor whites in the United States are the group most hostile to blacks.

Paul Graham

#2. ..this noticeable in the South, where theology
and religious philosophy are on this account a long way behind the North, and where the religion of the poor whites is a plain copy of Negro thought and methods.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#3. And rich white people were not so hard on Negroes; it was the poor whites who hated Negroes.

Anonymous

#4. The public symbols and constant reminders of black subjugation were supported by whites across the political spectrum, though the plight of poor whites remained largely unchanged. For them, the racial bribe was primarily psychological.

Michelle Alexander

#5. I graduated from Bowdoin College and went to the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Then I left and took a job teaching really poor inner-city white kids in Boston. It was interesting to me because I'd never been around poor whites before.

Geoffrey Canada

#6. Bryan - a great friend of mine, by the way - had a Neanderthal type of head, Burbank says. As to Riley, he has not even the oratorical skill of Bryan. The whole movement is based on the poor whites of the south.

Luther Burbank

#7. I want to see somebody go to jail over the financial crisis and not just black, brown and poor whites over humbles and minor drug beefs.

Don Cheadle

#8. During the Great Depression, African Americans were faced with problems that were not unlike those experienced by the most disadvantaged groups in society. The Great Depression had a leveling effect, and all groups really experienced hard times: poor whites, poor blacks.

William Julius Wilson

#9. The meaning of service is to do the work assigned ungrudgingly and without thought of personal reward material or moral.

D.T. Suzuki

#10. Everything changes and nothing remains still. PLATO, Cratylus

Kate Atkinson

#11. Trumpet players see each other, and it's like we're getting ready to square off or get into a fight or something.

Wynton Marsalis

#12. To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.

St. Catherine Of Siena

#13. [Newton's calculations] entered the marrow of what we know without knowing how we know it.

Hermann Bondi

#14. they're making new kinds of girls in America. Girls who don't give a fuck. Girls who dare. Girls who do it because other girls do it. Girls who would like a girl like you.

Caitlin Moran

#15. You know, I am just a musician and I have no idea these days what good and bad is in terms of labels.

Billy Sherwood

#16. In other things the knowing artist may Judge better than the people; but a play, (Made for delight, and for no other use) If you approve it not, has no excuse.

Edmund Waller

#17. The truth of it is that women are far more logical than men.

George Hamilton

#18. The peerless cup afloat
Of the lake-lily is an urn some nymph
Swims bearing high above her head.

Robert Browning

#19. We will direct every resource at our command - every means of diplomacy, every tool of intelligence, every instrument of law enforcement, every financial influence, and every necessary weapon of war - to the destruction and to the defeat of the global terror network.

George W. Bush

#20. Like the mind-set that places men above women, whites above blacks, and rich above poor, the mentality that places humans above nature is a dysfunctional delusion.

Petra Kelly

#21. The dreamtime of creative work is a turnstile to eternity. (from Workbok)

Steven Heighton

#22. Sustained great results depend upon building a culture full of self-disciplined people who take disciplined action, fanatically consistent with the three circles.

James C. Collins

#23. It's ironic, but true, that in this age of electronic communications, personal interaction is becoming more important than ever.

Regis McKenna

#24. The government will support you to the utmost of its ability, which is neither more nor less than it has done and will do for allcommanders.

Abraham Lincoln