Richard Ojeda Quotes

The competition of the poor takes away from the reward of the rich.

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.

The rich don’t want the poor to get ahead of them.

There are but two families in the world … The haves and the have-nots.

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

I come from the poor people, and I have been here working my whole stinkin' career for people who don't have a chance, and I really resent anybody that says I'm doing it for the rich. Give me a break.

Everybody wants to talk about black and white, when the situation is really about rich people against poor people.

You can only choose between rich and poor. The middle class is gone.

The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.

All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.

India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people.

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

In all the world, rich people are very unpopular.

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.

If you have extremes of haves and have-nots where the gap keeps growing, the have-nots group together and create social disorder, as they can't see a way out of their situation.

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

This erosion of the middle class is happening all over the place. The opening of a wider gap between rich and poor is always accompanied by such a process.

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

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.

The middle class has just fallen further and further behind the rich.

The messenger matters. When people of modest means complain about inequality, it usually gets written off as class warfare, but when billionaires complain, the problem is redefined.

Social inequality … divides society into two classes -- the wage-slaves and the grabbers of capital

An imbalance between the rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

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

The central issue of our time remains the fact that the rich are getting richer and the poor, poorer.