Poor Treatment Quotes

Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful easily break through them.

I am not a fan of people who abuse service staff. In fact, I find it intolerable. It’s an unpardonable sin as far as I’m concerned, taking out personal business or some other kind of dissatisfaction on a waiter or busboy.

Charity in various guises is an intruder the poor see often; but courtesy and delicacy are visitants with which they are seldom honored.

The conditions were terrible. The farmworkers were only earning about 70 cents an hour at that time - 90 cents was the highest wage that they were earning. They didn't have toilets in the fields; they didn't have cold drinking water. They didn't have rest periods. People worked from sunup to sundown. It was really atrocious.

I'm sick of seeing the immigrants in the hotels and the Italians who sleep in cars. This is the racist country.

Ben Carson was appointed to be the HUD secretary. He knows nothing about the mission of HUD. He doesn't care about people in public housing. He believes that if you are poor, it is your own fault. And he doesn't know the difference between an immigrant and a slave.

Low pay generally means harder work under worse conditions.

My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City - they treated you like slaves. From there I went back to Chicago, worked in steel mills, drove a cab, stuff like that.

I'm good with telling people what I think, too, but I don't know why people are so content to treat each other poorly.

The poor are the only ones who suffer. And they're used to it.

I was a cleaner while at university. The job wasn't bad, but I was amazed by how badly cleaners are treated - how disrespected they are by the people they work for.

People treated others crassly, looked down on the poor, and adored the rich

Only the rich can get justice, only the poor cannot escape it.

Poor creatures. What did we do to you? With all our schemes and plans?

Rich men do not lack physicians, but the poor can rarely afford good ones. We must pay special attention to them.

I go the VA Hospital when I have a problem and the doctor jumps on me.

The cow of many, well milked and badly fed.

If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded.

Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed levees and exploded the conventional wisdom about a shared American prosperity, exposing a group of people so poor they didn't have $50 for a bus ticket out of town. If we want to learn something from this disaster, the lesson ought to be: America's poor deserve better than this.

I always had trouble being proud of how they were using me in WCW. It was hard for me to be interested in what they were doing, and what they were doing with me was pretty pathetic.

The US government is usually on the wrong side against the poor and downtrodden, because the wrong side is the right side, given the class interests upon which the [US] policy is fixed.

People treat you like s*** when you're a doorman or a busboy. I licked envelopes for eight hours a day for this management company and cried half the time I was there while the managers were on the phone working.

Veterans continue to get the short end of the stick when it comes to this administration.

Shame is no comrade for the poor, I weet.

Woe to them, that take away the right of the poor.