Clark Durant Quotes

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

The only way to have a better world and end poverty is by closing the gap between the top and the bottom.

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.

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

I knew that it is out of the question to have honest, economical government while a few are inordinately rich and the great mass of men are poor. In fact, it is to be doubted if anything really worthwhile can be done until there is a fairer distribution of wealth.

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 biggest single challenge to America and our future is income inequality. We've got to fix it.

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

Government has a responsibility to the have-nots.

In a morally adjusted economy ... the rich should not get richer if the poor get poorer.

There is no “equality before the law” possible but between men economically free.

Unless you’re at the very top, you need a more equitable economy.

We used to wage war on poverty—not poor people.

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

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

We cannot continue to have the upper class wealty getting richer and richer, the middle class shrinking and 43 million living in poverty.

Worrying about the poor is one thing. To contend that equality is necessary for growth is an altogether different and more radical idea.

It's astounding to me that in a country where there is an ever-growing divide between rich and poor, that people won't accept the need for regulation on banks and salaries and so on.

We remain a highly unequal society in which poverty and prosperity are still defined by race as well as gender.

My goal is to eradicate poverty. I think we can't have equality until we eradicate poverty.

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

I would say I'm a fiscal conservative and a social liberal, if that contradiction can make sense, because in Bolivia, we have a great problem, which is the inequity of income distribution. The rich aren't that rich, but the poor are very poor.

I consider the homeless just as important as the richest of the rich.

Men pray to the Almighty to relieve poverty. But poverty comes not from God's laws-it is blasphemy of the worst kind to say that. Poverty comes from man's injustice to his fellow man.

Economic growth without social progress lets the great majority of the people remain in poverty, while a privileged few reap the benefits of rising abundance.