Quotes about Inequality

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.

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.

When journalists and politicians speak of a dwindling middle class that's under economic assault and a poor community that's getting bigger, they're talking about Ferguson. Independent of the racial demographics and dynamics of Ferguson, Missouri, there's a 'Ferguson' near you.

If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone.

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

Very few people can afford to be poor.

Not all of those who cry 'The poor, the poor!' will enter the kingdom of heaven.

Funny thing is that the poorer people are, the more generous they seem to be.

I've experienced colorism in that way: where if you're lighter, then you'll potentially be accepted into society better than if you were darker-skinned.

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

There are rich people everywhere, and yet they don't contribute to the growth of their countries.

People talk of life's storms as if they are universal experiences. But they're not. Some people hear thunder while others touch lightning.