Quotes About Disparity

Obama's economic policies widened the gap between the rich and the poor.

For me, being with Obama or having dinner with Bill Clinton... it's crazy. It's mind-blowing, because where I come from is just another world. We were just ignored by politicians - by America in general.

The differences in income between the poor world and the rich world are so great that people have to be interested.

Few, save the poor, feel for the poor.

India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people.

You know the funny thing, I don't get along with rich people. I get along with the middle class and the poor people better than I get along with the rich people.

There's more poor people in this country than there are rich, and I stick up for the poor people.

There is growing inequality. The families of the all-powerful Ministers are getting richer. The poor and hard-working Belizeans are getting poorer.

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.

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

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

In a country like Mexico, you can't forget about poverty - about how half of the population lives in poverty, and how half of that half live in extreme poverty.

I've been to the Bahamas before, and it's so crass. You land in Nassau, and the whole island is replete with beauty and culture, but there's a lot of poverty. It is a largely black population; then they build these places like Atlantis and The Cove that are walled off.

We face a dilemma because although everybody is better off than they've ever been at any time in our history, we've also got the biggest gap between the rich and the poor that we've ever had, and we've potentially got a planet which is going to go bust any day.

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.

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

Affluence creates poverty.

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.

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

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.

I love to have contrast.