What makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith it places in the ability of the poor to make decisions for themselves.

When I was growing up, my family was so poor we couldn't afford to pay attention.

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.

There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.

Before the arrival of the Credit Union, people who were from the poor background or a working class background couldn't borrow from banks.

I understood it was a poor area when I was young because you're driving through it and you see these low-income homes that I hadn't really seen before. I'd lived in upper-middle-class neighborhoods before we moved to Athens and The Plains. You understand, but you don't really understand the magnitude until you get older.

Victorian values meant brutalizing people who were often poor.

Racism is an issue in America but is primarily an issue for the poor. It's not LeBron James' issue.

The South African government, unlike a lot of African governments, isn't poor.

The poor people of the world tend to be the places that al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups can recruit.

Austerity is devastating these communities. The working poor, public sector workers, the disabled, and the vulnerable are the hardest hit by this bankrupt and ideologically driven policy.

It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.

We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible.

Poverty itself is not so bad as the poverty thought. It is the conviction that we are poor and must remain so that is fatal.

This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.

I always have to get my U.K. fix, and 'Downton Abbey' is definitely that. I absolutely love period dramas, but this one is particularly appealing - following the ins and outs of aristocracy as well as the interaction between the rich and the poor.

South Africa had very poor repertory distribution. I didn't find out about Akira Kurosawa and Tarkovsky and Werner Herzog until I got to the U.K.

Poor parenting may be reflected in poor sibling relationships.

A pre-nup is an insurance policy or, in brokerage terms, a short hedge - meant to mitigate a high-risk investment. It safeguards the love-struck from their own poor judgment of character.

We were poor and lived modestly, but we always had food on the table.