Unfair Distribution of Resources Quotes

The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.

Concentration of power in a political machine is bad..

Lotteries are a tax on the poor.

In a well-governed nation poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a badly governed country wealth is something to be ashamed of.

The people are getting screwed In this country.

Great accumulations of wealth cannot be justified on the basis of personal and family security. In the last analysis such accumulations amount to the perpetuation of great and undesirable concentration of control in a relatively few individuals over the employment and welfare of many, many others.

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return

We meet in the midst of a nation brought to the verge of moral, political, and material ruin. The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes for a few, unprecedented in the history of mankind.

Inequality is bad for everyone, not just the middle class and the poor.

Poverty is the parent of revolution.

What we call real estate--the solid ground to build a house on--is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.

One must denounce the economic, financial, and social mechanisms and structures that are manipulated by the rich and powerful for their own benefit at the expense of the poor

Exploitation. Now, there's a word that has been scrubbed out of the poverty debate.

Corruption in Nigeria is blocking development even though they have all this oil wealth.

To unequal privileges among members of the same society the spirit of our nation is, with one accord, adverse.

If work were good for you, the rich would leave none for the poor.

There can be no peace so long as hunger and want are found among millions of working people, and the few who make up the employing class have all the good things of life.

Conservatives are fond of telling us what a wonderful, happy, prosperous nation this is. The only thing that matches their love of country is the remarkable indifference they show toward the people who live in it.

The poor don't live in functional market economies as the rest of us do, but in political economies where corruption and broken systems extend from local government to moneylenders.

… the struggling masses

The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.

The worst affected from corruption is the common man.

I didn't believe one man should have so much services and another man should have none.

One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.