Quotes about Economic inequality
Most of us are aware of the sacrificial slaughter of Bear Sterns. Some people call it a bailout, but I call it a handout - a government handout to some of the richest people on Earth, paid for by American taxpayers.
- Robert Kiyosaki
The poor in our countries have been shut out of our minds and driven from the mainstream of our societies, because we have allowed them to become invisible.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I don't know who made the laws; But I know there ain't no law that you got to go hungry.
- Ernest Hemingway
Religion is the opium of the poor. I thought marijuana was the opium of the poor.
- Ernest Hemingway
Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.
- Nelson Mandela
One thing's sure and nothings' surer the rich get richer and the poor get -children In the meantime In between time.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
The middle class is teetering on the brink of collapse just as surely as AIG was in the fall of 2009 - only this time, it's not just one giant insurance company (and its banking counterparties) facing disaster, it's tens of millions of hardworking Americans who played by the rules.
- Arianna Huffington
All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
- William Henry Harrison
There's a wealth gap that is happening, and that is all over the world, you know? The rich are getting richer and holding a higher percentage of money or wealth that's out there.
- Hill Harper
The Republicans are wrong in thinking that the rich create jobs. In reality, many of the richest Americans have been investing in efficiency innovations rather than to create jobs. And the Democrats are wrong, because growth won't happen if they distribute the wealth of the wealthy to everyone else.
- Clayton M. Christensen
There are rich people everywhere, and yet they don't contribute to the growth of their countries.
- Hillary Clinton