John Grisham Quotes

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

In America, the 1 percent and the 10 percent are doing just fine, but the people who are bearing the brunt of this economy are the ones who suffer.

The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

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

We must talk about poverty, because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.

Throughout the play everything possible was done to show the virtue, innocence and helplessness of the poor, and the abandoned cruelty, the heartless self-indulgence of the rich.

Complaint is poverty.

Hey, baby, nobody suffers like the poor.

Society was cut in two: those who had nothing united in common envy; those who had anything united in common terror.

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.

Money can't buy poverty.

Bolivia is not yet a country of equals.

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

There are huge divorces and divides and chasms in black America between the have-gots and the have-nots, between the monied and the poor, between the educated and the non-educated. And there are huge and growing chasms daily. And I want to say that it's not simply about generation. It's about genre.

God has always been hard on the poor.

I don't want there to be this separation between the rich and poor. I may be part of the three percent because I've been fortunate and done well for myself, but I will never forget about the 97 percent. That was me growing up. I was so poor I dreamt about being just 'regular poor,' not 'poor, poor.'

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.

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

The Privileged and the People form Two Nations.

Poverty divide not only nations but societies within nations.

When I was a young fellow I was very much disturbed by there being some people with lots of money and lots of people with no money.

There are no great lords who possess everything and a herd of people who have nothing

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

You can have class in the ghetto and trash in the White House.

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