“Only poor people go to jail.”
Charles Barkley (1963) American basketball player
From interview on Jim Rome show
“If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.”
— John Steinbeck, book The Grapes of Wrath
Variant: If you're in trouble or hurt or need–go to poor people. They're the only ones that'll help–the only ones.
Source: The Grapes of Wrath
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