Franklin D. Roosevelt
Politician
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little."
Economic Inequality quotes
Economic Inequality
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Plutarch
Philosopher, Historian
"An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics."
Mother Jones
Labor Activist
"I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator."
Mother Jones
Labor Activist
"I know that there are no limits to which the powers of privilege will not go to keep the workers in slavery"
Thomas Jefferson
Politician, Founding Father
"Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor."
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"What good does it do to sit at the counter when you cannot afford a hamburger?"
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"As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce."
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"The essential point here is that all people with small, insecure incomes are in the same boat and ought to be fighting on the same side. Probably we could do with a little less talk about' capitalist' and 'proletarian' and a little more about the robbers and the robbed."
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"Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over."
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"People who have to fight for their living and are not afraid to die for it are higher persons than those who, stationed high, are too fat to dare to die."
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