Have Nots Quotes

Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.

Justice often means taking power from some who have it and giving it to some who do not.

Inadequate infrastructure has social as well as economic consequences. Lack of full access to vital networks—whether roads or broadband or running water—serves to reinforce existing patterns of economic growth and stagnation. It threatens to create new classes of haves and have-nots.

In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many.

Government has a responsibility to the have-nots.

Being outside the candy store looking in is the state of people today. Whether you're in a Pakistani village watching somebody in a car drive by, or you're in the city of Lahore going to a restaurant and seeing somebody with a security entourage coming in... you're exposed to people with more.

You gotta speak for the have-nots. Everybody ain't rich.

Most of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and have nots.

Throughout our history - and that of the world - it's always come down to the friction between the haves and have-nots or between the average Joes and the large corporations. So that's a recurring theme in my work.

Perhaps a day might come when there would be at last be enough to go round

This country's going to have a revolution if something doesn't happen the haves and have - nots.

Latin America was born with a birth defect: a highly unequal initial distribution of resources that dates back to the colonial era.

In the last era of the [civil rights] movement, the disenfranchised were the blacks, the colored. Now the disenfranchised are the have-nots, the unemployed, the hungry.

Mankind has been and is divided into three parts: the Haves, the Have-Nots, and the Have-a-Little, Want Mores.

But the most common and durable source of faction [political parties] has been the various and unequal distribution of property. Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society.

There were but two families in the world, Have-much and Have-little.

If you have extremes of haves and have-nots where the gap keeps growing, the have-nots group together and create social disorder, as they can't see a way out of their situation.

We fight to great disadvantage when we fight with those who have nothing to lose.

I think people are always going to be fascinated about the haves and have nots - about the divide between the servants and the rich families upstairs.

Those who have not, and live in want, are a menace, Ridden with envy and fooled by demagogues.

We still have two public school systems in the United States: One for the haves and one for the have-nots.

To be clear, the gap between the have gots and the have nots is widening. In this most multicultural, multiracial, multiethnic America ever, that concerns me.

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

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

The Republicans called it “trickle down” when Hoover tried it. Now they call it “supply side”. But it’s the same shining city for those relative few who are lucky enough to live in its good neighborhoods. But for the people who are excluded—for the people who are locked out—all they can do is stare from a distance at that city’s glimmering towers.