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.
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.
Today, there are three kinds of people: the haves, the have-nots, and the have-not-paid-for-what-they-haves.
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.
Income inequality is one thing, but a permanent division into the haves and have-nots is an entirely different thing - and much less acceptable.
I'm not the kind of writer who's able to block out the world around me. I'm mindful of our own haves and have-nots, how our culture often blames and punishes the have-nots. I worry about our precarious economic and political climate.
Dear God, Please untie the nots. All of the can nots, should nots, may nots and have nots. Please erase from my mind the thoughts that I am not good enough.
Schools are not equal. There are still the haves and the have-nots.
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.
Might have, could have, may have, should have—the haves and have nots reduced to pointless possibilities.
We live in a world in which we're seeing an increasing gap between the haves and the have-nots.
Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots.