Cindy Sheehan Quotes

The worst affected from corruption is the common man.

The lack of equity and of a sense of solidarity in international transactions works to the advantage of the industrialized nations so that the gulf between the rich and the poor is ever widening. Hence derives the feeling of frustration among third world countries, and the accusations of exploitation and economic colonialism brought against the industrialized nations.

The people are getting screwed In this country.

Income inequality and government corruption are both unfortunate realities in the United States.

I think Republicans need to take income inequality more seriously. Not because I favor equality of outcomes. I do not. I think the Right is correct to stress merit and earned rewards, not handouts and forced equality. But I think what Republicans are blind to is that power corrupts.

I see tremendous imbalance in the world. A very uneven playing field, which has gotten tilted very badly. I consider it unstable. At the same time, I don't exactly see what is going to reverse it.

Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.

As a Third World citizen, I always feel that I need to express my point of view. Sometimes the points of view of Third World countries are never expressed. We don't have that possibility, sometimes, to spread what we feel and how we see things.

The 'Third World' is a term I don't like very much because we're all one world. I want people to know that the largest part of humanity is suffering.

In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well. This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies.

Property in man, always morally unjust, has become nationally dangerous.

After a lifetime of world travel I've been fascinated that those in the third world don't have the same perception of reality that we do.

I believe that cronyism is nothing more than welfare for the rich and powerful, and should be abolished.

Most successful American politicians look well-fed on endorsements, campaign contributions and chicken dinners.

Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.

George W. Bush has helped those who have most, hurt those who have least and ignored everyone in between.

People feel like the system is rigged against them, and here is the painful part, they're right. The system is rigged.

We started the AIDS virus. We are only able to maintain our level of living by making sure that Third World people live in grinding poverty.

We have about 50% of the world's wealth but only 6.3% of its population…. we cannot fail to be the object of envy and resentment …

The biggest problem is that the rich people paying the bills do not share the same goals as the poor people they are trying to help. The wealthy have weak incentives to get the right amount of the right thing to those who need it; the poor are in no position to complain if they don’t.

The planet is not yet safe. It suffers from the kind of greed that ignores not only global warming but an even more immediate bomb ready to detonate—the terrible gap on the globe between the rich and the poor, the technologically proficient and the majority left behind, the overfed and the starving, and the arrogance of our only superpower, my country, that sees only as far as the next election or tomorrow's Dow Jones Industrial Index.

In a well-governed nation poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a badly governed country wealth is something to be ashamed of.

Aid corrupts.

... an apathetic indifferent meat in a sandwich that has an ever thinning slice of maniacal Plutocratic Gluttony on top and an ever thickening slice of rotten vermin rottening at the bottom.

There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, eat a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets.