Winnie Byanyima Quotes

Occupy Wall Street is meant more as a way of life that spreads through contagion, creates as many questions as it answers, aims to force a reconsideration of the way the nation does business and offers hope to those of us who previously felt alone in our belief that the current economic system is broken.

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

We cannot rebuild the American Dream here at home by catering to the voices of the privileged and powerful.

This should be the message of Occupy Wall Street: We just want a chance; our government needs to give us a chance.

What [Bernie] Sanders has done is he's focused the nation on the fact that these things are not inevitable. They are the result of policies. We can do better to create an economy that works well for working Americans.

The only real struggle in the history of the world ... is between the vested interest and social justice.

I am going to attack income inequality and I think I have a pretty good plan to do so. I don't just tell you what I'm against. I tell you what I'm for and how I would do it.

Poverty is not inevitable. It is a human ill that we can fight if we decide to do so together.

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

Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.

Unlike the Tea Party, who see themselves as the customers of government, people in the Occupy Wall Street movement understand that we are the government. Stated most simply, we are trying to run a 21st-century society on a 13th-century economic operating system. It just doesn't work.

The only way to grow the economy in a way that benefits the bottom 90 percent is to change the structure of the economy. At the least, this requires stronger unions and a higher minimum wage.

I hold with Henry George, that at the back of every great social evil will be found a great political wrong.

It's not my fault that there is this gap between rich and poor, it is the fault of governments. I want a different world. One where I don't wake up thinking I'm so lucky to be able to feed my daughter.

Richness in the world is a result of other people's poverty. We should begin to shorten the abyss between haves and have-nots.

Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.

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

It is because the fight against the harshest aspects of unrestricted capitalism is therefore a political problem and not an intellectual one that community action remains so essential.

I'm interested in illuminating the enormous disparity between vast poverty and the tiny upper class... This vast inequity is unfair by definition, and I am interested in illuminating that and, where possible, changing that.

Hey, you got something going here. I think we've got a chance for some progressive policy that actually focuses on poor and working people.

Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place.

The issue of wealth inequality is ... the great moral issue of our time.

Remove poverty from politics.

For the good of Spain, I should like there to be rather fewer rich people and rather fewer poor.

The global economy should not be supported by wage earners. They have to be able to build a future like any other human being.