Sharan Burrow Quotes

Will the American People Never Cease to Oppress and Torture the Helpless poor?

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

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Face it, the system is rigged, and it's rigged against us.

The laws are stacked for the wealthy.

Inequality is a terrible waste of time, a waste of people's resources.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

Often the masses are plundered and do not know it.

Why did the world ever become so unequal?

The wealthiest in this country have never had it so good. They want more, and more, and more, and more, and they don’t care how many children they have to step on to get it..

Resentment — that feeling when the modern promise of equality collides with massive disparities of power, education, status and property ownership.

The rich rob the poor, and the poor rob one another.

In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of 'the Haves' over the human rights of 'the Have Nots' is inevitably called into serious question.

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

Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.

Large numbers of people are broken from the notion that the system is working for people, that the system is just or humane or peaceful.

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

Slavery, racism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry, subordination, and human rights abuse transform and adapt with the times.

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

I am from the class that has, in a sense, benefited from the status quo, but everyone still gets victimized.

I don't hate nobody. I hate certain conditions that are inflicted upon the people - and they're helpless with it.

Who gets the risks? The risks are given to the consumer, the unsuspecting consumer and the poor work force. And who gets the benefits? The benefits are only for the corporations, for the money makers.

A weak people and its equally debilitated leaders are bludgeoned by history. It maims them into the cripples that they are meant to be.

Unless you've been touched personally, it's difficult to see, but there are millions of people who have no voice whatsoever.

Property is organized robbery.