Quotes About Inequality

By helping the poor, we must be able to remove their poverty. But extending help to one here and one there in the form of providing food will not remove poverty.

Throwing away food is like stealing from the table of those who are poor and hungry.

Hunger is not debatable.

It occurred to me that there wouldn't be world hunger, if you people would MOVE WHERE THE FOOD IS!!!

Freedom is meaningless if people cannot put food in their stomachs, if they can have no shelter, if illiteracy and disease continue to dog them.

Some goin' east; and-a some goin' west, Some stand aside to try their best. Some livin' big, but the most is livin' small. They just can't even find no food at all.

Why do babies starve /When there's enough food to feed the world /Why when there's so many of us /Are there people still alone

When we get more houses than we can live in, more cars than we can ride in, more food than we can eat ourselves, the only way of getting richer is by cutting off those who don't have enough.

Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.

Why is it that farmworkers feed the nation but they can't get food stamps?

If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.

The story I tell is so incomplete, five kids in the house and no food to eat.

George Bush doesn't care about black people... They're saying black families are looting and white families are just looking for food... they're giving the (Army) permission to shoot us.

The world's biggest problem is the unequal distribution of capitalism. If there were capitalism everywhere, you wouldn't have food shortages.

On GOP Tax Cuts: They'll take food out of the mouths of children to give tax cuts to the wealthiest.

If poor people want food stamps, they should become massive corporations.

The average family earning minimum wage spends 141 percent of their income struggling to meet basic needs - food, shelter, clothing.

In these days when we feed those who are not hungry, we are stealing from those who are starving, even though the food is our own.

For every $1 advertisers spend advertising something healthful like apples, they spend $500 advertising junk food.

The unequal distribution of food is one of the world's most tragic facts. Millions of people die because they have too little to eat, and many die because they have too much.

It must be fundamentally wrong to reduce production of food and fiber while one-third of our population is still ill fed and ill clothed.

By defining the problem as 'hunger', the emergency food system is helping to direct our attention away from the more fundamental problem of poverty, and the even more basic problem of inequality.

What sort of government is it that permits so many children to go to school hungry, without even a morsel of food in their stomachs? It cannot be! It must not be!

The billion people who wake up every day trying to figure out if they have enough food to eat won't be at Davos.