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I ask you, what am I? I’m one of the undeserving poor: thats what I am. Think of what that means to a man.
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Act II

 

George Bernard Shaw

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[Referring to private hospital funding alone:] That won't work, it will never be enough, good health care costs a lot of money, remembering 'the distant parts of this province' in which 'assistance cannot be procured, but at an expense that neither [the sick-poor] nor their townships can afford.' ... '[This] seems essential to the true spirit of Christianity, and should be extended to all in general, whether deserving or undeserving, as far as our power reaches.'

 

Benjamin Franklin

 

I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I travelled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.

 

Benjamin Franklin

 

Do not praise an undeserving man because of his riches.

 

Bias of Priene

 

Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.

 

Albert Pike

 

Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.

 

Thomas Love Peacock