Sojourner Truth Quotes

It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.

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

As recognized since ancient times, the coexistence of very rich and very poor leads to two possibilities, neither a happy one. The rich can rule alone, disenfranchising or even enslaving the poor, or the poor can rise up and confiscate the wealth of the rich.

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

It is assumed that the daughters of the poor are for the use of the rich. They assume that we’re their property.

All down history, nine-tenths of mankind have been grinding corn for the remaining one-tenth, been paid with the husks, and bidden to thank God they had the husks.

The rich have all the speech they want; the poor have lockjaw.

On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.

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.

The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day.

The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, eat a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets.

The saddest part is that the public officials, both State and Federal, are in league with the capitalists in making the rich richer, and the poor poorer.

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

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

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

Trouble brews when we steal from the poor and give to the rich.

The rich don't exploit the poor. They just out-compete them.

The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.

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

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

When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.

If work was a good thing, the rich would have it all and not let you do it.

I've always stood on one fact - that all over the world, there are only two things, the Establishment and the poor people. The poor people are a massive majority and across the world they are exploited in different kinds of ways. The Establishment depends on exploiting raw materials and the 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.