John Lewis Gaddis Quotes

If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.

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.'

Half the world does not know how the other half lives.

We live increasingly in a world of haves and have-nots, of gated communities next to ghettos, of extreme poverty and unbelievable riches. Some enjoy rights that are completely denied to others. Relative inequalities are exploding, and the world's poorest, despite all the advances of globalisation, may even be getting poorer.

There are all these people in this country who are just not participating in the American Dream at all.

It is clear that the economy has not gotten better for everyone.

Capitalism has only hurt Latin America.

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.

We know that social exclusion is closely tied to the new economic world order, globalized, with free and open markets, which isn't bringing prosperity or social justice to all.

I like globalization; I want to say it works, but it is hard to say that when six hundred million people are slipping backwards.

Global poverty is a powder keg ignitable by our own indifference.

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

Poverty, discrimination and ignorance decrease growth.

The world is hugely unequal.

While we have created prosperity for many, too many are being left behind.

Poverty is a result of lack of opportunity. Lack of opportunity is about being without power, without being in a position to make choices.

Billions of people are being left behind by economic growth.

I think that there always have been and always will be at least two Americas - the poor America, the second America, tends to be in the shadows. Sometimes it's an America of people in a ghetto of color, sometimes it's an economic ghetto, but definitely there is a parallel America which people in the dominant America prefer to ignore if they can.

Greater inequality in Europe has made people less happy.

The rich stick together; the poor and the marginalised are thrown together.

A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country.

Life is now a war zone, and as such, the number of people considered disposable has grown exponentially, and this includes low income whites, poor minorities, immigrants, the unemployed, the homeless, and a range of people who are viewed as a liability to capital and its endless predatory quest for power and profits.

China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day.

Poverty and lack of education are ruining our planet.

The 1 to 2 billion poorest in the world, who don't have food for the day, suffer from the worst disease: globalization deficiency. The way globalization is occurring could be much better, but the worst thing is not being part of it. For those people, we need to support good civil societies and governments.