Quotes About Inequality

I don't mind the rich getting richer, but the poor shouldn't be getting poorer, and there should be more people moving into the middle class.

The capitalist system is about taking from the Earth and from the other great commodity, labour. What's happening with this system is that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, and the only way out of it is supposed to be growth. But growth is debt. It's going to make the situation worse.

Poorer people tend to watch more television because they can't afford other diversions.

I've had two callers ask, 'Did you ever work for someone who is poorer than you are?' Their idea is it takes a rich person to give you a job because jobs are something that are given to you, an inferior, from on high.

If the country's poorer, it's got less money.

Detroit is really a model for how wealthier and whiter Americans escape the costs of public goods they'd otherwise share with poorer and darker Americans.

Elvis Presley's estate is making 30 million a year, and they say that Marley shouldn't be, but he is from a much poorer part of the world, and a lot more people need the money.

We were much poorer than many families.

I'm the poorest famous person in the country.

Most poor people live in the poorest countries.

It is interesting to note that the 200 richest people have more assets than the 2 billion poorest.

The poorest people are so incredibly poor, and the rich are so incredibly rich on the other side. That is a kind of fascination.

I was one of the poorest people in America.

A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.

At Ellis Island, I mean, you didn't go there if you arrived in first class. It was only the poorest, the people in the worst shape.

The poorest guy in Miami lives better than much of the power elite in Havana.

Rising energy costs kill jobs and hit America's poorest the hardest.

The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world's population.

If science has a lot to do with what works, then clearly there's much about today's social and economic setup that isn't scientific, because things aren't working very well for a majority of the world's population or the environment.

Africa's young population could be a huge economic asset if inequality were addressed.

The world's richest half billion people - that's about seven per cent of the global population - are responsible for fifty per cent of the world's emissions.

We have three billion people, half the world's population today, living on less than two dollars a day.

For too long, we financed our schools in a way that has systematically left large segments of our population behind.

The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor.