Synonyms for Poor white:

Famous quotes with Poor white

• I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I'm not ashamed of anything.

  Eminem
• I'd become sort of involved in things that were happening to people. No matter what color they be, whether they be Indians, or Negroes, the poor white person or anyone who was I thought more or less getting a bad shake.

  Gordon Parks
• what possible justification can there be there for giving scholarship assistance to the child of a black middle-class family, while denying it to a poor white? Can one imagine a more crass disregard for the genuine meaning of the Equal Protection Clause?

  Harry V. Jaffa
• I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart, I am the Negro bearing slavery's scars. I am the red man driven from the land, I am the immigrant clutching the hope I seek — And finding only the same old stupid plan Of dog eat dog, of mighty crush the weak.

  Langston Hughes

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Related words: low-income white Americans, poor whites, socio-economic status, white privilege, white poverty, poverty rate, class inequality, american poverty

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Chases sign

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