Poor Whites

Famous quotes containing the words poor and/or whites:

“The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“I advance it therefore as a suspicion only, that the blacks, whether originally a distinct race, or made distinct by time and circumstances, are inferior to the whites in the endowments of both body and mind.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)