“Attacking the rich is not envy. It is self defense. The hoarding of wealth is the cause of poverty. The rich aren’t just indifferent to poverty; they create it and maintain it.”

— Jodie Foster

Incorrectly attributed to Foster, according to snopes.com https://www.snopes.com/attacking-the-rich/
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American actor, film director and producer 1962

May Sarton (1912–1995) American poet, novelist, and memoirist

“Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.”

Мэй Сартон (1912–1995)

“The dirty truth is that the rich are the great cause of poverty.”

Michael Parenti (1933) American academic

1 POLITICS AND ISSUES, Creating The Poor, p. 21
Dirty truths (1996), first edition

““The main cause of poverty or financial struggle is fear and ignorance, not the economy or the government or the rich. It’s self-inflicted fear and ignorance that keeps people trapped.”

Robert T. Kiyosaki (1947) American finance author , investor

Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money-That the Poor and the Middle Class Do Not!

“The landlord owes his riches to the poverty of the peasants, and the wealth of the capitalist comes from the same source.”

Peter Kropotkin book The Conquest of Bread

Source: The Conquest of Bread (1892), Ch. 4 : Expropriation

“…richness of heart of the poor people [and to despise] the poverty of heart of the rich.”

Baba Amte (1914–2008) Indian freedom fighter, social worker

Baba Amte: A Vision of New India

“Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.”

Doris Day (1922–2019) American actress, singer, and animal rights activist

Though she is quoted as saying this in a 1996 interview, she is quoted as saying it is a maxim which she follows as a Christian Scientist, and it seems to come from words of a Christian Science Hymn. It does come from Hymn 249 in the Christian Science Hymnal
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