Unfair Wealth Quotes

I want no money raised by injustice.

One finds fortunes built on slave labor, indentured labor, prison labor, immigrant labor, female labor, child labor, and scab labor - backed by the lethal force of gun thugs and militia. 'Old money' is often little more than dirty money laundered by several generations of possession.

The essence of all slavery consists in taking the product of another's labor by force. It is immaterial whether this force be founded upon ownership of the slave or ownership of the money that he must get to live.

Wealth is not the fruit of labor but the result of organized protected robbery.

And who can suffer injury by just taxation, impartial laws and the application of the Jeffersonian doctrine of equal rights to all and special privileges to none? Only those whose accumulations are stained with dishonesty and whose immoral methods have given them a distorted view of business, society and government. Accumulating by conscious frauds more money than they can use upon themselves, wisely distribute or safely leave to their children, these denounce as public enemies all who question their methods or throw a light upon their crimes.

[O]pulence is always the result of theft, if not committed by the actual possessor, then by his predecessors.

The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes for a few.

But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.