Quotes About Inequality

I grew up in poverty. I was ashamed of the fact, when we were kids, we'd be at school hungry, our stomachs rumbling so we couldn't concentrate.

If the Planning Commission said those who live above Rs 5,000 a month are not at poverty line, obviously there is something wrong with the definition of poverty in this country. How can anybody live at Rs 5,000?

Exploitation. Now, there's a word that has been scrubbed out of the poverty debate.

Places like India can give you a real culture shock because of the poverty you see, and it brings you up sharply.

Ridding the world of poverty is, of course, a fantasy.

I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.

The interesting thing is, while we die of diseases of affluence from eating all these fatty meats, our poor brethren in the developing world die of diseases of poverty, because the land is not used now to grow food grain for their families.

Poverty is everywhere, but in Africa, there is more.

As a mother living in poverty, I don't expect my parenting choices to be respected by default.

It is not possible to have a strong, functioning business in a world of increasing inequality, poverty, and climate change.

Our world is afflicted by poverty. Don't spend all this money on clothes!

The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty.

Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.

Our capital system is haunted by the demon of error: error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die. What effect was race having? What effect was poverty having?

When you talk about war on poverty it doesn't mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today.

That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.

Every year 3.1 million Indian children die before the age of 5, mostly from diseases of poverty like diarrhea.

Since the day Martin Luther King was killed, the black middle classes have almost quadrupled, but the percentage of black children living on or below the poverty line is almost the same.

It is conflict overall that mires people in poverty. That is the first law of development.

There isn't a lot of poverty literature in the young-adult world. And I don't know why that is, but I think certainly I felt a gap.

I've never experienced chronic poverty, but I know what it's like to live on £3 a week.

Hispanic children now make the largest group of children in poverty.

My Scottish Labour Party is a crusade - to fight poverty, inequality and injustice.

The worst part of great poverty is that you become blind to it.