Ruby Dee Quotes

This America has been the country of greed rather than the country of need.

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

In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.

We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

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.

Most of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and have nots.

All down history, nine-tenths of mankind have been grinding corn for the remaining one-tenth, been paid with the husks, and bidden to thank God they had the husks.

There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, eat a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets.

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..

Inequality is an inevitable product of capitalist activity, and expanding equality of opportunity only increases it—because some individuals and communities are simply better able than others to exploit the opportunities for development and advancement that capitalism affords.

No man should be made poor so another man can be made rich.

On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.

The dainties of the great are the teares of the poore.

Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.

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

However democratic and egalitarian we kid ourselves into thinking society might be, I think that sense of entitlement operates as basically and viciously as it always did.

We live increasingly in a world of haves and have-nots, of gated communities next to ghettos, of extreme poverty and unbelievable riches. Some enjoy rights that are completely denied to others. Relative inequalities are exploding, and the world's poorest, despite all the advances of globalisation, may even be getting poorer.

Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.

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

There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.

Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it discriminates against the underprivileged, it discriminates against the poor. If we want sports to go back to the wealthy, let's make it amateur again.

Colour is not the issue in America; class is.

The money I pay for my cultural experiences came willingly from my own pocket - they were not the result of bread being removed from the mouths of the poor so that Miss Thing here could mince off to the circus smelling of roses.

Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat a better meal than a neighbor, or otherwise to enjoy ease and plenty, while our fellow creatures are suffering and in want.