Robert Southey Quotes

I've always stood on one fact - that all over the world, there are only two things, the Establishment and the poor people. The poor people are a massive majority and across the world they are exploited in different kinds of ways. The Establishment depends on exploiting raw materials and the poor.

The dirty truth is that the rich are the great cause of poverty.

Could there be anything but widespread misery, where a privileged few controlled a nation's wealth, while millions labored for a pittance, and millions more were desperate for want of employment?

There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery

Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political liberty; and the only political freedom capable of enduring is one that is so pruned as to keep the rich from denuding the poor by ability or subtlety and the poor from robbing the rich by violence or votes.

Poor people always lose in struggles.

There is a working class - strong and happy - among both rich and poor: there is an idle class - weak, wicked, and miserable - among both rich and poor.

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

Class still matters in Britain today.

Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.

It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.

Few, save the poor, feel for the poor.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.

It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.

The Occupy movement has drawn attention to how too many in the 1 percent get to play by their own rules while exploiting the 99 percent.

I'm interested in illuminating the enormous disparity between vast poverty and the tiny upper class... This vast inequity is unfair by definition, and I am interested in illuminating that and, where possible, changing that.

Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty. As millionaires increase, pauperism grows. The more millionaires, the more paupers

I don't know, it may be that poor people are the only ones who commit crimes, but I do know that they are the only ones who serve prison sentences.

It is assumed that the daughters of the poor are for the use of the rich. They assume that we’re their property.

So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings, goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury, and make sharper the contest between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.

The saddest part is that the public officials, both State and Federal, are in league with the capitalists in making the rich richer, and the poor poorer.

You can have class in the ghetto and trash in the White House.

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

The rich have all the speech they want; the poor have lockjaw.