Chesa Boudin Quotes

Africa is rich, and why are we poor then if our continent is rich. It is not right.

Capitalism has only hurt Latin America.

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us pray." We closed our eyes. When we opened them, we had the Bible and they had the land.

The game is rigged to work for those who already have money and power.

Unrestrained liberalism only makes the strong stronger and the weak weaker and excludes the most excluded.

The rich don't exploit the poor. They just out-compete them.

Property in man, always morally unjust, has become nationally dangerous.

I think inequality is fine, as long as it is in the common interest. The problem is when it gets so extreme, when it becomes excessive.

Whenever there are some who have more opportunities than others, this feeds corruption.

The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day.

I will see that the sons and daughters of the European colonists…have at least such an education…as will fit them to maintain their unquestioned superiority in this land.

The defeats and victories for the people at the top aren't defeats and victories for the people at the bottom.

The lack of equity and of a sense of solidarity in international transactions works to the advantage of the industrialized nations so that the gulf between the rich and the poor is ever widening. Hence derives the feeling of frustration among third world countries, and the accusations of exploitation and economic colonialism brought against the industrialized nations.

Poor whites have been pitted against poor blacks to assuage the conscience of the affluent.

You [a country] cannot be rich, successful and powerful and still be loved, particularly be those who have little success, wealth or power.

One must denounce the economic, financial, and social mechanisms and structures that are manipulated by the rich and powerful for their own benefit at the expense of the poor

The white man expelled the Indian, took his possessions, developed the unexplored resources, and now he devotes a portion of his accumulations to establish institutions where the red man learn the secret and method of his power.

The wealthiest in this country have never had it so good. They want more, and more, and more, and more, and they don’t care how many children they have to step on to get it..

The rich don’t need to rely on government … -- they can buy … things for themselves. In the process, they become more distant from ordinary people, losing whatever empathy they may have once had. They also worry about strong government: one that could use its powers to … take some of their wealth, and invest it for the common good.

You can make too much of inequality because there is always so much of it.

We live in a system that espouses merit, equality, and a level playing field, but exalts those with wealth, power, and celebrity, however gained.

Rugged individualism really means the regimentation of the many for the benefit of the few.

Inequality is partly a marker of success.

The system shaves the dice on the side of those with money and power, and anyone who believes otherwise deserves anything that happens to him.

Our defeat was always implicit in the victory of others; our wealth has always generated our poverty by nourishing the prosperity of others - the empires and their native overseers. In the colonial and neocolonial alchemy, gold changes into scrap metal and food into poison.