I hope you are writing this from a really poor place, like a Brazilian favela. People there must be really good. Why would you not live with them? I am certain you are not some hypocrite, who lives in an affluent, evil place. That would really disappoint me, because I really want to believe you are not full of BS.
Some of worst evilest motherfuckers I knew were dirty poor, and some of them were filthy rich.
Evil Motherfuckerness seems to be uniformly distributed across the social strata.
Nothing in his statement talked about the poor being better, just that every rich person becomes so by taking from others.