Adam Davidson Quotes

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

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

It is assumed that the daughters of the poor are for the use of the rich. They assume that we’re their property.

The rich rob the poor, and the poor rob one another.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

The rich stick together; the poor and the marginalised are thrown together.

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

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

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

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

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

As recognized since ancient times, the coexistence of very rich and very poor leads to two possibilities, neither a happy one. The rich can rule alone, disenfranchising or even enslaving the poor, or the poor can rise up and confiscate the wealth of the rich.

At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other.

It is impossible for one class to appreciate the wrongs of another.

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

The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.

The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger.

When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.

Victorian values meant brutalizing people who were often poor.

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 most dreaded of all wars, the war of the poor against the rich … will come and come with all its horrors.

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.

The Privileged and the People form Two Nations.

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.