Quotes About Inequality

There's a lot of money in wars, except in the war on poverty. Can't make any bread helping the poor.

I'm concerned about the fact there seems to be a war on the poor - that if you're poor, somehow you're shiftless and lazy.

Wars are bred by poverty and oppression. Continued peace is possible only in a relatively free and prosperous world.

The rich are only defeated when running for their lives.

Instead of war on poverty, they got a war on drugs so the police can bother me.

35 million people in the U.S. are hungry or don't know where their next meal is coming from, and 13 million of them are children. If another country were doing this to our children, we'd be at war.

There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty

Its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery . . . is his natural and normal condition.

Nothing has contributed more to the systematic mass incarceration of people of color in the United States than the War on Drugs

Class war is not the cause of social progress; it is a disease developed in the course of social progress. The cause of the disease is the inability to subsist, and the result of the disease is war.

Some years ago, the federal government declared war on poverty, and poverty won.

The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.

The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles.

Conservatives say if you don't give the rich more money, they will lose their incentive to invest. As for the poor, they tell us they've lost all incentive because we've given them too much money.

Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.

In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor.

Wars are caused by unprotected wealth.

It is a myth that higher taxes lead to less demand and slower growth. In the first three decades after World War II, US top tax rates on the wealthy were never below 70 percent.

I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.

A rich man's war and a poor man's fight.

It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends 500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only 53 annually on the victims of poverty.

Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!

Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.