Robert Kennedy Quotes

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

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.

The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.

Poverty is born of super-abundance itself.

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

one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.

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

No nation can be freer than its most oppressed, richer than its poorest, wiser than its most ignorant.

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

I think, for me, the biggest issue is poverty in general, poverty in this time of plenty. It's reflected in homelessness. It's reflected in educational gaps. It's reflected in racial disparities.

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

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

Poverty is unnecessary.

Income inequality is troubling because, among other things, it means that many people in our society don't have the opportunities to advance themselves.

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.

If everybody lives in the same way, there's something almost narcotizing about it, but the true misery of economic class difference is knowing that you can't have what somebody else does.

It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.

There is this notion that the lives of the comfortable-off middle class don't merit being treated seriously and with compassion.

The needs of the poor take priority over the desires of the rich

I didn't believe one man should have so much services and another man should have none.

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.

I care not how affluent some may be, provided that none be miserable in consequence of it.

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

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