Luciana Berger Quotes

Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.

Inflation is taking up the poverty line, and poverty is not just economic but defined by way of health and education.

My goal is to eradicate poverty. I think we can't have equality until we eradicate poverty.

It is absolute poverty that you could end, but I think relative poverty is a whole other issue.

If war is the solution, why didn't Roosevelt declare war on poverty?

1% of the population has all the money and the other 99% have nothing.

When you talk about war on poverty it doesn't mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today.

I do not believe in widening the income gap between rich and poor, and my life's work in the inner city of Detroit demonstrates that far more than any sound bite.

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

I don't think any of us ran for the United States Senate to preside over the lowering of the American standard of living.

If you work, you should not be poor.

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

Inequality of income is bad for everyone, not just the poor and the middle class.

In the developed world, income inequality within the country is the most important determinant of health standards and life expectancy.

The United States has the highest poverty rate [and] the greatest … wealth inequality of any major developed economy in the world…. No other developed country is as addicted to poverty and inequality as we are, and yet somehow they prosper.

We cannot continue to have the upper class wealty getting richer and richer, the middle class shrinking and 43 million living in poverty.

I agree that income disparity is the great issue of our time. It is even broader and more difficult than the civil rights issues of the 1960s. The '99 percent' is not just a slogan. The disparity in income has left the middle class with lowered, not rising, income, and the poor unable to reach the middle class.

Income inequality has become so prevalent in the U.S. that examples of its negative impact on the middle class are as common as Kanye West saying something cringeworthy in the media.

We must stop tax giveaways to rich corporations and developers while our schools are crumbling and people are losing their homes.

I think it's criminal the way poverty is allowed to flourish.

I don't really care much about what the top one per cent earn. The gap we ought to care about in wealth is between the middle and the bottom.

I would say I'm a fiscal conservative and a social liberal, if that contradiction can make sense, because in Bolivia, we have a great problem, which is the inequity of income distribution. The rich aren't that rich, but the poor are very poor.

What good is a high GDP if some, or even many, Americans are left behind?

We have to get out of this mindset that the rich will do the business and the poor will have the charity.

What point is there to all the wealth and power that America may have if they can't look after its own?