Poor Whites

Famous quotes containing the words poor and/or whites:

“How poor are they that have not patience!
What wound did ever heal but by degrees?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“In the United States the whites speak well of the Blacks but think bad about them, whereas the Blacks talk bad and think bad about the whites. Whites fear Blacks, because they have a bad conscience, and Blacks hate whites because they need not have a bad conscience.”
—Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990)