Cordell Hull Quotes

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

The poor developed an envy and an extreme jealousy, born of the realization that they are as worthy, or even more worthy than the wealthy, and are nonetheless afflicted with poverty, hunger, misery, and contempt.

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

We need wealthy dogs off the seats of power. They're taking us back to feudalism and I really don't want that. But I'm very far from being a socialist.

The rich don’t want the poor to get ahead of them.

Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses.

Poor whites have been pitted against poor blacks to assuage the conscience of the affluent.

Allow the rich (no matter under what pretext, whether of philanthropy, or patriotism, or interest) to prescribe the education of the poor, and they prescribe their condition and relative importance.

one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.

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

The dirty truth is that the rich are the great cause of poverty.

Exploitation. Now, there's a word that has been scrubbed out of the poverty debate.

The world belongs to the wealthy, and nowhere is this injustice more apparent than in the workplace.

I think that there always have been and always will be at least two Americas - the poor America, the second America, tends to be in the shadows. Sometimes it's an America of people in a ghetto of color, sometimes it's an economic ghetto, but definitely there is a parallel America which people in the dominant America prefer to ignore if they can.

The laws are stacked for the wealthy.

'Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream' is an intentionally angry film. How could it not be when the chance of an infant dying is five times greater on the Bronx Park Avenue than on Manhattan's Park Avenue just across the Harlem River?

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

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

As a Londoner I was able to see how the world of power and money cast its shadow on those who failed.

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

The economy is not governed with the bottom half in mind.

At the end of the day, we have an economy that works for the rich by cheating the poor, and unequal schools are the result of that, not the cause.

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.

I'm concerned about - the oppression of the poor.

You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.