Mamata Banerjee Quotes

I firmly believe that our salvation depends on the poor.

Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.

Every capitalist is your enemy. Every working man is your friend.

We used to wage war on poverty—not poor people.

If every one of those good words - liberty, equality, fraternity, democracy, human rights - has been called "bourgeois", what on earth does that leave for us?

Irrespective of economic theories, we will take decisions in the larger interest of the poor people.

The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite.

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

I am a communist and a worker, and I have lived in a decadent capitalist society where the workers are slaves.

I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.

I can't talk fellowship to you who are gathered here. Too much blood has been spilled. I know from my experience it is up to the working people to save themselves. The only way they can save themselves is by a strong working-class movement.

I applaud the growing commitment of Evangelicals to the needs of the poor and oppressed in urban America.

The real solution is to improve the incomes of the poor and provide their children with decent education.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

Trickle-down theories do not address the legitimate aspirations of the poor. We must lift those at the bottom so that poverty is erased from the dictionary of modern India.

If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.

Oh, how I would like a poor Church, and for the poor.

If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!

It is because of capitalism that we can pay for services to poor people that we don't even know.

Many workers already realize that the rule of the Socialist or Communist party will be only the concealed form of the rule of the bourgeois class in which the exploitation and suppression of the working class remains.

Government has a responsibility to the have-nots.

The social order we have built recognizes no exploitation of man by man. In our country there are no rich people to live at the expense of the workers and peasants. Just as there are no poor people living on the charity of others.

Be it Resolved, That we urgently call upon the wage earning class to arm itself in order to be able to put forth against their exploiters such an argument which alone can be effective: Violence.

Solidarity forever …. We stand outcast and starving from the wonders we have made.

Workers! Leave the Socialist Party. It is your enemy and ours.