Charles Bradlaugh Quotes

In America, the poor have been invisibilised, because obviously this model of success that has been held out to the world must not show the poor, it must not show the condition of black people. It can only the successful ones, basketball players, musicians, Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell. But I think the time will come when the Occupy movement will have to somehow formulate something more than just anger.

This country's going to have a revolution if something doesn't happen the haves and have - nots.

In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.

I am going to fight capitalism even if it kills me. It is wrong that people like you should be comfortable and well fed while all around you people are starving.

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.

You can't just lecture the poor that they shouldn't riot or go to extremes. You have to make the means of legal redress available.

The vast concourse of people who had assembled to witness the triumphant arrival of the successful travellers was of the lowest orders of mechanics and artisans, among whom great distress and a dangerous spirit of discontent with the government at that time prevailed.

In the Europe which was created by the Second World War, divided into two blocks, each in need of a revolution that would end the abuses and injustices of capitalism and the privileges of a bureaucratic caste, collective faith does not exist.

Without alienation, there can be no politics.

Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!

Work and pray, live on hay, you'll get pie in the sky when you die.

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.

Agitators are a set of interfering meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary.

Revolutions break out when opposite parties, the rich and the poor, are equally balanced, and there is little or nothing between them.

For we went, changing our country more often than our shoes In the class war, despairing When there was only injustice and no resistance

I came to the cities in a time of disorder When hunger ruled. I came among men in a time of uprising And I revolted with them.

The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but a stepping stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till our political contests will become a war of the poor against the rich.

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

The machines, which mark the triumph of science, become, by reason of the antithetic conditions of the social plexus, instruments which impoverish millions and millions of artisans and free peasants.

I have often been asked, 'How is it that Ireland could formerly support a population of eight millions as compared with only five now?’ The answer is simple: Eight millions could still exist if the potato crop were a certainty, and if the people were now content to exist as they did then. But to the then existing population-living at best in a light-hearted and hopeful, hand-to-mouth contentment-there was a terrible awakening.

‘Money can't buy happiness.’ That's just a lie we tell poor people to keep them from rioting in the streets

It was not until I got down to Latin America that I began to get a political education. Whatever my ideas when I went down there, I saw things around me every day that influenced me. I saw the terrible economic and social conditions, and the injustices that could not be ignored.

The absolutists of contract are the real parents of revolution.

Revolution by the have-nots has a way of inducing a moral revelation among the haves.

Poverty gives rise to the desire for change, the desire for action and the desire for revolution.