Stacey Abrams Quotes

Let some people get rich first.

The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.

I never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich; they want to get rich.

I think America has dealt with - I mean, this is simplistic, and of course I don't live in America - but the impression I get is that there is not a kind of obligation to dislike those who are better off or be frightened of those who are worse off.

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

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

The competition of the poor takes away from the reward of the rich.

The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else,and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit.

The laws are stacked for the wealthy.

When the idle poor become the idle rich, you'll never know just who is who, or which is which.

In all the world, rich people are very unpopular.

Texas has arguably the most extreme separation between the well off and everyday people in the United States.

Colour is not the issue in America; class is.

I'm interested in illuminating the enormous disparity between vast poverty and the tiny upper class... This vast inequity is unfair by definition, and I am interested in illuminating that and, where possible, changing that.

The messenger matters. When people of modest means complain about inequality, it usually gets written off as class warfare, but when billionaires complain, the problem is redefined.

Social inequality … divides society into two classes -- the wage-slaves and the grabbers of capital

The rich don’t want the poor to get ahead of them.

The poor generally follow behavior patterns established by the rich.

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

The wall between rich and poor is a wall of glass which all can see.

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

Like Venice’s oligarchs, America’s super-rich are destroying the social mobility that creates wealth.

What is called sound economics is very often what mirrors the needs of the respectably affluent.