Howard Fast Quotes

The rich stick together; the poor and the marginalised are thrown together.

The Privileged and the People form Two Nations.

The poor developed an envy and an extreme jealousy, born of the realization that they are as worthy, or even more worthy than the wealthy, and are nonetheless afflicted with poverty, hunger, misery, and contempt.

… in the old days there were one thousand castes and destinies in India. These days, there are just two castes: Men with Big Bellies and Men with Small Bellies. And only two destinies: eat – or get eaten up

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

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

The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.

It is assumed that the daughters of the poor are for the use of the rich. They assume that we’re their property.

All down history, nine-tenths of mankind have been grinding corn for the remaining one-tenth, been paid with the husks, and bidden to thank God they had the husks.

We have two American flags always; one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it, it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it, it means danger, revolution.

America is like a melting pot. The people at the bottom get burned, and the scum floats to the top.

There are no great lords who possess everything and a herd of people who have nothing

Poor men's words have little weight.

All the households of the poor are not equally submissive

I was also pained to notice an institution which I certainly did not expect to find in this country – I mean caste. Your rich people are really Brahmins, and your poor people are Sudras.

The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.

Men who are scandalized at the lack of freedom in Russia do not ask themselves how real is liberty among the poor, the weak, and the ignorant in capitalist society.

What I quickly discovered is that our so-called new South Africa has as much material for a story-teller as the old one. The landscape hasn't really changed. Who is in power now is different to who was in power then, but the squatter camps grow like cancer, the rich get richer, the poor get poorer.

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

In 1750, 75 percent of people on the planet worked to support the top 25 percent.

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

The organization and constant onward sweep of this movement exemplifies the resentment of the many toward the selfishness, greed and the neglect of the few.

The sharecropper may lower his eyes, but not because he's less of a man. That's just a condition of society that such things exist.

Inequality causes problems by creating fissures in societies, leaving those at the bottom feeling marginalized or disenfranchised.

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.