Quotes About Inequality

Richness in the world is a result of other people's poverty. We should begin to shorten the abyss between haves and have-nots.

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

Clothes make the poor invisible. America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known.

Affluence creates poverty.

I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty.

Knife crime and gun crime is poverty-driven, and poverty leads to insecurity.

The middle class has disappeared. We have a highway to poverty and no roads coming out.

I've never been anywhere in my life like it and I only really noticed it when I returned to Los Angeles and then Berlin. Everybody is much better off in these places, there is not poverty like in Cuba, but everybody complains about things.

The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor.

Money can't buy poverty.

When someone can't afford to wear shoes, it's not just about them not having shoes on that day. It's about a cycle of poverty that exists within their community.

And sometimes people don't realize that 90 percent of the persistent poverty counties are located in rural America.

In the final analysis, poverty is a condition of helplessness - of inability to cope with the conditions of existence in our complex society.

There's so much absurdity. Poverty is so absurd.

What too few people mention when discussing crime is the degree to which concentrated poverty, hopelessness and despair are the chambermaids of violence and incivility.

There is a deep sadness to American poverty, greater than the sadness of any other kind. It's because America has such an ideology of success.

Poverty is not a lack of character. Poverty is a lack of cash.

There are many Asian-Americans who are living in poverty, especially our senior citizens.

Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.

After 'An Inconvenient Truth' came out, a lot of people came to me with their causes, and there are a lot - water, poverty, and so many, many more.

There's a real sense of desperation when you grow up in poverty.

So much talent comes from the base of poverty and those in the margins. You limit the base, you miss too much talent.

These days there is a lot of poverty in the world, and that's a scandal when we have so many riches and resources to give to everyone. We all have to think about how we can become a little poorer.