Andrew Forrest Quotes

I think we've made tremendous progress on racism. We've even made progress on war. We've made almost no progress on poverty.

Why did the world ever become so unequal?

This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing.

You can make too much of inequality because there is always so much of it.

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.

In the last era of the [civil rights] movement, the disenfranchised were the blacks, the colored. Now the disenfranchised are the have-nots, the unemployed, the hungry.

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

There is a lot of inequality in Colombia. We have to correct that.

We should be uncomfortable with the growing gaps in our society, and we cannot allow ourselves to become desensitized to these injustices.

Economic chasm between people is something that is of interest to me. And something that I used to write about even as a child. It's something I've revisited a few times in my writings.

In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of 'the Haves' over the human rights of 'the Have Nots' is inevitably called into serious question.

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

There are two Americas - separate, unequal, and no longer even acknowledging each other except on the barest cultural terms. In the one nation, new millionaires are minted every day. In the other, human beings no longer necessary to our economy, to our society, are being devalued and destroyed.

Inequality is on the rise.

A shining city is perhaps all the President [Ronald Reagan] sees from the portico of the White House and the veranda of his ranch, where everyone seems to be doing well. But there's another part to the shining city. In this part of the shining city there are more poor than ever, more families in trouble, and more people who need help and can't find it.

Excessive economic and social disparity between individuals and peoples of the one human race is a source of scandal and militates against social justice, equity, human dignity, as well as social and international peace.

The prime culprit in causing contemporary social inequality seems to be merit.

The association of poverty with progress is the enigma of our times.

So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings, goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury, and make sharper the contest between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.

We will not settle for a state that will settle for an underclass.

Globalization has down sides because it leaves so many people behind.

There is an increase in inequality in the early stages of development.

It was not until I got down to Latin America that I began to get a political education. Whatever my ideas when I went down there, I saw things around me every day that influenced me. I saw the terrible economic and social conditions, and the injustices that could not be ignored.

Poverty is a corrosive brew, capable of eating away at the underpinnings of democratic life itself.

To be concerned about inequality is not engaging in class warfare.