Lauren Daigle Quotes

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

An imbalance between the rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

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

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

Poor men's words have little weight.

There never can be equality of rewards or possessions so long as the human plan contains varied talents and differing degrees of industry and thrift, but ours ought to be a country free from the great blotches of distressed poverty.

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.

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

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

If no man could become rich in Peru, no man could become poor.

Imagine a society in which there were neither rich nor poor. What evils, afflictions, sorrows, disorders, catastrophes, disasters, tribulations, misfortunes, agonies, calamities, despair, desolation and ruin would be unknown to man!

Oscar Wilde said the rich and the poor are equal - they can both sleep under the bridge. Right? Do they have a right? You're damn right they have a right!

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.

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.

I do not believe in widening the income gap between rich and poor, and my life's work in the inner city of Detroit demonstrates that far more than any sound bite.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall.

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 gap between the rich and poor is widening fast.

The middle class has just fallen further and further behind the rich.

The central issue of our time remains the fact that the rich are getting richer and the poor, poorer.

For the good of Spain, I should like there to be rather fewer rich people and rather fewer poor.

The bigger the gap there is between the rich and the poor, the less stable and successful the society will be