Haitian Proverb Quotes

If work was a good thing, the rich would have it all and not let you do it.

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

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.

If work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.

Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.

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

Hunger, the inseparable companion of the poor, is the offspring of the unequal distribution of the wealth and the injustices in this world. The rich do not know hunger.

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

Labor is, on the one hand, more and more furnished by a class; Property or Capital, on the other, held and controlled by another class. Here you have workers without property—the proletariat. There you have property without work—or capital…. The workers without property are excluded from their products, from the riches they create—which accumulate in the hands of the property holders, capitalists and large land-owners.

The yacht of the millionaire incorporates a million days' labor which might have been given to abolishing the slums …

In the United States you have socialism for the rich and free markets for the poor.

No harm is done by the possession of Luxury by some people if only at the same time EVERYBODY HAS ENOUGH. The wrong incurred by the rich toward the poor lies solely in the fact that while they revel, the poor starve

Ordinary people understand that the rich and powerful bully the poor and meek.

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

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

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

With the laborers of England generally, does not the moral coercion of want subject their will as despotically to that of their employer, as the physical constraint does the soldier, the seaman, or the slave?

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

The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

The saddest part is that the public officials, both State and Federal, are in league with the capitalists in making the rich richer, and the poor poorer.

We oppose monopoly, the tendency of which is to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

The rich in their gilded coaches trample the common citizen into the dust.

Riches run after the rich, and poverty runs after the poor.

The rich have all the speech they want; the poor have lockjaw.

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