Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

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

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 goatherds were the poorest people of Spain. Probably, they were the richest.

The gap between the rich and poor is widening fast.

The poor generally follow behavior patterns established by the rich.

No society is healthy when the gap between the rich and the poor is growing.

Poverty was a relationship, I thought, involving poor and rich people alike.

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.

I don't mind the rich getting richer, but the poor shouldn't be getting poorer, and there should be more people moving into the middle class.

I don't want there to be this separation between the rich and poor. I may be part of the three percent because I've been fortunate and done well for myself, but I will never forget about the 97 percent. That was me growing up. I was so poor I dreamt about being just 'regular poor,' not 'poor, poor.'

The middle class has just fallen further and further behind the rich.

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

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

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'm tired of people on trust funds telling people on food stamps how to live.

The poor will never cease out of the land.

The rich follow Wealth, and the Poor the Rich.

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

The bigger the gap there is between the rich and the poor, the less stable and successful the society will be

If Eleanor Roosevelt has her way, how are we going to tell the rich from the poor?

The burning issue of our time is the growing inequality in income and wealth in our country.

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.

Nobody talks about the poor. Everybody talks about the middle class and just kinda want to ignore that the poor exist. And you cannot ignore that they exist if you want to help them.

All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.