Richard Coles Quotes

There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor.

In politics heaven lies at the feet of the poor masses.

The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.

Nobody really knows for sure how the Boxer Rebellion started. It began among the poor, and the history of the poor is rarely written down.

We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.

I'm concerned about - the oppression of the poor.

The issues that matter to me are the social safety nets for people, health care, middle-class concerns. We need to take care of the middle class and the poor in our country.

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

When you come from desperate poverty, and that's exactly what I come from, you know that nonsenses are not to be tolerated. I'm not sure who gains from chaos, but I know it's not the poor folks in the council flats. The politics of vindictiveness is never, ever anything like a solution.

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low.

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

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 poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different, diverse reasons, again seems to escape some people.

I believe in preferring the sanctity of human rights to the sanctity of property rights. I believe that the chief concern of government shall be for the poor because, as it is witnessed, the rich have ample means of their own to care for themselves.

The social order we have built recognizes no exploitation of man by man. In our country there are no rich people to live at the expense of the workers and peasants. Just as there are no poor people living on the charity of others.

The needs of the poor take priority over the desires of the rich

The poor will never cease out of the land.

Who takes the blame: the leader who talks of poverty but lives in luxury, or the poor who choose a leader of that type?

We should remember the poor.

We will not settle for a state that will settle for an underclass.

In the last era of the [civil rights] movement, the disenfranchised were the blacks, the colored. Now the disenfranchised are the have-nots, the unemployed, the hungry.

Underneath the conservative popular base is the substratum of the outcasts and outsiders, the exploited and persecuted of other races and other colors, the unemployed and the unemployable. They exist outside the democratic process; their life is the most immediate and the most real need for ending intolerable conditions and institutions.

… the submerged tenth

Poor men's words have little weight.

While the politicians fight for place and power, what of the destinies of the common people, in whose name and for whose alleged benefit the contending factions appeal to the world at large?