Sharan Burrow Quotes

No country now in transition will be able to accommodate demands for either economic security or social justice anytime soon.

Global growth and development that is strong, sustainable, and inclusive requires the challenges of inequality to be met head-on.

I believe we can build a human economy where people are the bottom line.

Governance should be designed as an equalizer. Democrats are more inclined towards working families and those who are struggling for a better life.

We must create a kind of globalization that works for everyone... and not just for a few.

It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.

One of the fundamental questions of today's world is undoubtedly the question of equitable globalisation.

We have to be bold in our national ambitions. First, we must win the fight against poverty within the next decade. Second, we must improve moral standards in government and society to provide a strong foundation for good governance. Third, we must change the character of our politics to promote fertile ground for reforms.

Everybody can't have the life of a normal, average American person in India - they can't. So, it's about egalitarianism. It's about sharing things more equally. It's about access to natural resources.

Our investments in social justice and basic needs are as vital to our future as fiscal and macroeconomic reforms. A nation deeply divided will not stand. And it certainly will not move forward.

When you're fighting for economic and social justice, you're always fighting for the minority.

We hold the view that all men are created equal." Now, what did they mean by that? Did they mean, my friends, to say that all men were created equal and that that meant that any one man was born to inherit $10 billion and that another child was to be born to inherit nothing? Did that mean, my friends, that someone would come into this world without having had an opportunity, of course, to have hit one lick of work, should be born with more than it and all of its children and children's children could every dispose of, but that another one would have to be born into a life of starvation?

The wealthy have a responsibility to invest in addressing inequality. This is especially true when constraints on others are so great.

I have tried to suggest that injustice is not necessary economic -- that the economics can work, and has often worked, when the constituency for it is animated. The politics of equality -- that is a little harder.

It is right to be forward in the defense of the poor; no system that is not just as between rich and poor can hope to survive.

Economic inequality is not about food stamps and homeless shelters. It is about being a devotee of social justice and equality.

I'm not persuaded that the opposite of poverty is wealth - I've come to believe... that the opposite of poverty is justice.

I don't subscribe to the view that people who are better off don't want to live in a more equal society.

Social justice and economics are both issues to me.

I came from a family who believed in the “Rights of Man,” who believed that in order to justify the sort of luxurious life that the majority of us have, related to the whole world, that you had to do something.

Big businesses aren't the only ones in the economic ecosystem. Nobody should fall behind because of an unfair structure.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

Diamonds are a key component in the campaign to make poverty history.

Always remember: the alleviation of poverty is never a political or economic issue - it is moral.