“We should measure the prosperity of a nation not by the number of millionaires but by the absence of poverty, the prevalence of health, the efficiency of public schools, and the number of people who can and do read worthwhile books.” –W.E.B. This is the real reason the American health care system is in such a scandalous state.” –Shirley Chisholm It has been conceived as a privilege, available only to those who can afford it. Lakota leader (1831-1890), at the Powder River Council, 1877 They take their tithes from the poor and weak to support the rich and those who rule.” –Sitting Bull These people have made many rules that the rich may break but the poor may not. Strangely enough they have a mind to till the soil and the love of possession is a disease with them.
“Yet hear me, people, we have now to deal with another race – small and feeble when our fathers first met them but now great and overbearing. labor and community organizer, speech at Coney Island, 1903 I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States senator.” –Mary Harris Jones (“Mother Jones”) “I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. President of South Africa, State of the Nation Address, February 9, 1996 “We must work together to ensure the equitable distribution of wealth, opportunity, and power in our society.” –Nelson Mandela If these great men must have outdoor memorials, let them be in the form of handsome blocks of buildings for the poor.” –Elizabeth Cady Stanton “I am weary seeing our laboring classes so wretchedly housed, fed, and clothed, while thousands of dollars are wasted every year over unsightly statues. Mexican artist, writing about New York City in the 1930s “There is so much wealth and so much misery at the same time, that it seems incredible that people can endure such class difference, and accept such a form of hunger while on the other hand, the millionaires throw away millions on stupidities.” –Frida Kahlo It is the struggling masses who are the foundation and if the foundation be rotten or insecure, the rest of the structure must eventually crumble.” –Victoria Woodhullįirst woman to run for President of the United States, 1872 “It is not great wealth in a few individuals that proves a country is prosperous, but great general wealth evenly distributed among the people. The vermin are always with you.” – Barbara EhrenreichĪmerican author, The Nation, November 17, 2007 Fly in a private jet and you’re still dependent on archaic, under-financed, systems of air traffic control…Oh, and you lobbied against higher taxes and regulations on business? Then think twice before you sink your teeth into that chocolate and gold dessert. Ride around in a limo and you still have to sit in traffic created by ordinary people who can’t afford to live near where they work. “Even the very rich cannot escape into their own little bubble of purity and excellence, of “haute” this and “haute” that.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Īmerican civil rights leader, November 4, 1956 “Oh America, how often have you taken necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes…God never intended for one group of people to live in superfluous inordinate wealth, while others live in abject deadening poverty.” – Dr.
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