Charles B. Rangel Quotes

As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.

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

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.

If we continue to create a world where there is poverty and disrespect, there will continue to be terrorism.

Love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that's being pushed to the margins, and you can see it.

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

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

Too many things that happen in this country give the impression that our system is blind in the right eye.

The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.

The imperialists have also imposed on us an unjust economic order, and thereby divided our people into two groups: oppressors and oppressed. Hundreds of millions of Muslims are hungry and deprived of all form of health care and education.

All men are created equal. Some, it appears, are created a little more equal than others.

We need to maintain law and order. We need to maintain peace in the world. We need to protect the environment. We need to have some degree of social justice, equality of opportunity. The markets are not designed to take care of those needs. That's a political process.

We have to stand together against terror and the reasons for terrorism, which are poverty and ignorance.

The U.N. has brought peace and order to many places around the world. However, terrorism, violent extremism, violations of human rights, natural disasters caused by climate change - they all threaten the lives of people today. Add migration, insufficient health care, lack of education, and the picture gets even bleaker.

There is no excuse for inaction in the face of economic injustice.

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

The great biblical tradition enjoins on all peoples the duty to hear the voice of the poor. It bids us break the bonds of injustice and oppression which give rise to glaring, and indeed scandalous, social inequalities.

Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty.

Poverty must be reduced not only for reasons of moral and justice, but also of security.

Bolivia is not yet a country of equals.

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

I really do think I can make a contribution in helping eliminate the disparity here in Australia and doing my small bit to help eliminate slavery around the world. These are huge issues for our fellow countrymen and our fellows in the world, where slavery is growing at an alarming rate, and it needs to be arrested.

The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.

I believe that as we face unparalleled prosperity in some quarters and deep impoverishment in others, it is the willingness of the next generation to bridge the gap between the two that will return us to our sense of purpose and focus.

Well you know, all law is about injustice.