Mason Cooley Quotes

Sadly, because of the enormous gap between rich and poor, some mothers can afford helpers, but many can't. Those who can would be kinder to refrain from criticizing other women.

I'm not sticking up for white kids - I'm going to have a barrage of hate mail - but it's true. If you're poor, you're really poor.

The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else,and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit.

Socially, I never belonged to any class, rich or poor. To the rich I was poor, and to the poor I was poor pretending to be like the rich.

The thing that really struck me when I went to junior high was class. I grew up on a pretty poor street, but the school district I was in included some fine neighborhoods - so I got to know a couple of the kids from those places and went to their houses and experienced such culture shock.

Growing up I always felt like I was living on the other side of the tracks. I knew the people on the other side had more resources, more money, happier families.

In fact, the class divide in the black community is now seen by some as a permanent aspect of our existence.

The difference between rich and poor is becoming more extreme, and as income inequality widens the wealth gap in major nations, education, health and social mobility are all threatened.

We live in a world in which we're seeing an increasing gap between the haves and the have-nots.

The rich are few everywhere, the poor many.

There are only two families in the whole world, my old grandmother used to say, The Haves and the Have-Nots.

It is wrong to say God made rich and poor; He made only male and female

The burning issue of our time is the growing inequality in income and wealth in our country.

If you don't have money or you come from a background that doesn't have money, it's harder to achieve your ambition in life. It's not that you can't, but it becomes harder. Inequality is one of the worst things that can exist in our society, so I am interested in those kind of things.

Eat with the rich, but go to the play with the poor, who are capable of joy.

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

The patience and forbearance of the poor are among the strongest bulwarks of the rich.

Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.

The rich get richer and the poor get - children.

One thin's sure and nothing's surer The rich get richer and the poor get - children. In the meantime, In between time...

In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.

The rich are different from us.

Complaint is poverty.

Many men of course became extremely rich, but this was perfectly natural and nothing to be ashamed of because no one was really poor, at least no one worth speaking of.