Edward Snowden Quotes

Go back to - my first campaign for the United States Senate. I got a bunch of people now talking about inequality. But back then they sure weren't. Back then, folks were saying I was preaching class warfare. Now it's suddenly their campaign platform.

Disparity is Australia's worst social problem. Thousands of lives are slowly being crushed, while billions are wasted on thousands of little initiatives trying to 'close the gap.'

The greatest difficulty with the world is not its ability to produce, but the unwillingness to share.

Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.

Bolivia is not yet a country of equals.

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

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

Inequality doesn't create unhappiness.

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.

Because Katrina put it out there, no one can play the pretend game anymore that there isn't poverty and inequality in this country. The Millions More Movement - Katrina gives it added significance.

The messenger matters. When people of modest means complain about inequality, it usually gets written off as class warfare, but when billionaires complain, the problem is redefined.

Why did the world ever become so unequal?

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

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

History shows that when you have continuing income inequality it is an invitation to class conflict.

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

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

The burning issue of our time is the growing inequality in income and wealth in our country.

The idea of solving as huge and long-term a problem as inequality - which, for my money, is the biggest single problem we have here at home - just never gets serious concern from both sides.

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

When the topic is growing income inequality, it's hard to prettify an imbalance between the rich and everybody else, so instead, conservatives try to argue that it doesn't exist.

The extent of and continuing increase in inequality in the United States greatly concern me.

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

Food banks have become such a powerful symbol in part because they're inescapable.

I fall into the camp that income inequality is the biggest problem we face.