Winnie Byanyima Quotes

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

... popular art has no chance of a healthy life, or, indeed, of a life at all, till we are on the way to fill up this terrible gulf between riches and poverty.

High levels of inequality generate high costs for society, dampening social mobility, undermining the labour market prospects of vulnerable social groups, and creating social unrest.

A lot of people, including me, are worried that inequality will lead to bad things.

If you have extremes of haves and have-nots where the gap keeps growing, the have-nots group together and create social disorder, as they can't see a way out of their situation.

We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.

If the nation is rich but people are poor, the country cannot be strong, and society will be unstable.

Poverty divide not only nations but societies within nations.

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

This country is very good at creating wealth, but not very good at distributing it.

… perceptions of poverty have gone up because there’s been rising inequality.

No society is healthy when the gap between the rich and the poor is growing.

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

Income inequality is one thing, but a permanent division into the haves and have-nots is an entirely different thing - and much less acceptable.

Nobody talks about the poor. Everybody talks about the middle class and just kinda want to ignore that the poor exist. And you cannot ignore that they exist if you want to help them.

We need to recognize that it is growing economic inequality that creates the conditions for hate to fester.

Billions of people are being left behind by economic growth.

Greater inequality in Europe has made people less happy.

The world is richer than ever, and the gaps between rich and poor are wider.

In a city like New York, you're aware of the rich and poor.

Texas has arguably the most extreme separation between the well off and everyday people in the United States.

Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious.

The Occupy Wall Street protests at last suggest that America's wealth gap is once again becoming an organizing political principle in the country.

The way corporate media likes to portray America is as a homogenous whole that high-five's each other at the Super Bowl. But what we have is a grotesque disparity between the rich and poor that is only getting wider.

When inequality gets too extreme, then it becomes useless for growth, and it can even become bad because it tends to lead to high perpetuation of inequality over time and low mobility.