Leon Czolgosz Quotes

If it is held to be morally wrong and anti-social for one man to possess huge estates, which he may develop or not as he chooses, while hundreds of others nearby are relegated to landlessness, why should one people acquire, by similar accident of birth or achievement, a claim to an inordinate share of the good things of life and a right to exclude from them other less fortunate peoples, white, black, or yellow?

I'm not interested in defending the position of those who already have money, power and privilege.

In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of 'the Haves' over the human rights of 'the Have Nots' is inevitably called into serious question.

Washing dishes as a 17-year-old in an Oxford college and seeing the privileged lifestyles of the undergraduates there convinced me that a system that allowed luxury for the few at the expense of the many needed to be challenged.

We spend more on cows than the poor.

There are two separate systems in America. One for the privileged, and one for everybody else.

To be concerned about inequality is not engaging in class warfare.

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

To understand the Left, one must understand that in its view the greatest evil is material inequality. The Left is more troubled by economic inequality than by evil as humanity has generally understood the term.

The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.

Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.

George W. Bush has helped those who have most, hurt those who have least and ignored everyone in between.

The biggest problem is that the rich people paying the bills do not share the same goals as the poor people they are trying to help. The wealthy have weak incentives to get the right amount of the right thing to those who need it; the poor are in no position to complain if they don’t.

It is not fair that some people should have a better chance in life simply because of where they live.

Inequality is bad for everyone, not just the middle class and the poor.

In the operative opinion of the world, he who is already fully provided with what is necessary for him, that man shall have more;while he who is deplorably destitute of the same, he shall have taken away from him even that which he hath. Yet the world vows it is a very plain, downright matter-of-fact, plodding, humane sort of world.

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

The greatest difficulty with the world is not its ability to produce, but the unwillingness to share.

The laws are stacked for the wealthy.

We live in a very unequal society.

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.

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

I am from the class that has, in a sense, benefited from the status quo, but everyone still gets victimized.

I'm still a communist in the sense that I don't believe the world will survive with the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer - I think that the pressures will get so tremendous that the social contract will just come apart.