Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

The origin of all revolutions and corruption, and the spur and source of all base morals are just two sayings: The First Saying: 'So long as I'm full, what is it to me if others die of hunger?' The Second Saying: 'You suffer hardship so that I can live in ease; you work so that I can eat.'

The world has grown rich and refined, but chiefly by the efforts of those who themselves continue poor and ignorant.

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

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.

Property in man, always morally unjust, has become nationally dangerous.

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

Victorian values meant brutalizing people who were often poor.

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.

The worker is always in the sun while the landowner is always in the shade.

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

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

There are no limits to which powers of privilege will not go to keep the workers in slavery.

This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing.

Southern men declare that their slaves are better off than hired laborers amongst us. How little they know, whereof they speak! There is no permanent class of hired laborers amongst us.

You can make too much of inequality because there is always so much of it.

I believe you should tell the story of injustices, of inequalities, of bad conditions, so that the people as a whole in this country really face the problems that people who are pushed to the point of striking know all about, but others know practically nothing about.

Steal a loaf of bread and they hang you, steal a land and they'll make you king.

The dainties of the great are the teares of the poore.

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

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.

Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.

When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and all the blacks were still poor. Materially, not much changed.

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.