Cesar Chavez Quotes

The rich are few everywhere, the poor many.

I think greed is a critical problem - the gap between the poor and the rich. The gap between the top 10 percent and the bottom 10 percent.

The poor generally follow behavior patterns established by the rich.

This contempt for money is a trick developed by the rich to keep the poor without it.

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

Growing richer every day, for as rich and poor are relative terms, when the rich are growing poor, it is pretty much the same as if the poor were growing rich. Nobody is poor when the distinction between rich and poor is destroyed.

The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor.

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

The central issue of our time remains the fact that the rich are getting richer and the poor, poorer.

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

I think in the last thirty years, the rich have gotten richer and the poor have gotten poorer. It is not something that you can see with rose-colored glasses.

It is easy to say that there are the rich and the poor, and so something should be done. But in history, there are always the rich and the poor. If the poor were not as poor, we would still call them the poor. I mean, whoever has less can be called the poor. You will always have the 10% that have less and the 10% that have the most.

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

If no man could become rich in Peru, no man could become poor.

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

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

There are huge divorces and divides and chasms in black America between the have-gots and the have-nots, between the monied and the poor, between the educated and the non-educated. And there are huge and growing chasms daily. And I want to say that it's not simply about generation. It's about genre.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty. As millionaires increase, pauperism grows. The more millionaires, the more paupers

Republicans look after the rich, and Democrats focus on the needs of the middle class. Neither of them looks after the poor.

Hunger, the inseparable companion of the poor, is the offspring of the unequal distribution of the wealth and the injustices in this world. The rich do not know hunger.

The needs of the poor take priority over the desires of the rich

The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, no worse, for a people than another.

For the good of Spain, I should like there to be rather fewer rich people and rather fewer poor.

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