David Crockett Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

Colleges and universities divide families by income, providing access to the best schools for those with accumulated wealth. Low- or moderate-income families are relegated to the less prestigious schools where the resources for advancement are fewer than those provided at better financed schools.

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

In this respect, higher education is now causing most of the growing inequality and strengthening class structure of the United States.

Everybody wants to talk about black and white, when the situation is really about rich people against poor people.

Colour is not the issue in America; class is.

We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.

You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course.

The wall between rich and poor is a wall of glass which all can see.

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.

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

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 competition of the poor takes away from the reward of the rich.

I come from the poor people, and I have been here working my whole stinkin' career for people who don't have a chance, and I really resent anybody that says I'm doing it for the rich. Give me a break.

I do think that there is both a very powerful sense of entitlement and a kind of bubble of wealth which makes it hard for the people at the very top to understand the travails of the middle class.

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

I never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich; they want to get rich.

Growing up on, say, the Upper East Side, you're so isolated. If you go to the Hamptons every weekend, you never talk to a construction worker, and the construction worker would never talk to you.

Class still matters in Britain today.

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.

In a city like New York, you're aware of the rich and poor.