And that is that we have never been: a nation of haves and have-nots. We are a nation of haves and soon-to-haves, of people who have made it and people who will make it. And that's who we need to remain.
We do not accept that ours will ever be a nation of haves and have-nots. We must always be a nation of haves and soon-to-haves.
Another current catch-phrase is the complaint that the nations of the world are divided into 'haves' and the 'have-nots.' Observe that the 'haves' are those who have freedom, and that it is freedom that the 'have-nots' have not.
Mankind has been and is divided into three parts: the Haves, the Have-Nots, and the Have-a-Little, Want Mores.
Terrorism thrives when the gap between the 'haves' and 'have nots' becomes so wide and when the 'have nots' reach the point of such desperation, pain, and agony that they have nothing to lose.
If you have extremes of haves and have-nots where the gap keeps growing, the have-nots group together and create social disorder, as they can't see a way out of their situation.
Schools are not equal. There are still the haves and the have-nots.
Richness in the world is a result of other people's poverty. We should begin to shorten the abyss between haves and have-nots.
When governance improves, there will be less have-nots and more haves.
This country's going to have a revolution if something doesn't happen the haves and have - nots.
Climate change pries further apart the haves and have-nots.
[On The Hunger Games success]: "It hit on the zeitgeist of the disparity b/w the haves and have nots.
The history of prevailing status quos shows decay and decadence infecting the opulent materialism of the Haves. The spiritual life of the Haves is a ritualistic justification of their possessions.
We live in a world in which we're seeing an increasing gap between the haves and the have-nots.
Might have, could have, may have, should have—the haves and have nots reduced to pointless possibilities.
Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots.