Kerry Kennedy Quotes

Income inequity has to be addressed.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

There should not be one new dime in tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires as long as millions of children in America are poor, hungry, uneducated and without health coverage.

I'm interested in illuminating the enormous disparity between vast poverty and the tiny upper class... This vast inequity is unfair by definition, and I am interested in illuminating that and, where possible, changing that.

It is unjust to let any starve, when we think it just to limit the wages of the poor, so as they can lay up nothing against the time of their impotency and want of work.

Margaret Thatcher's government redistributed money from rich to poor. And that's the nature of a modern western democracy.

We don't have a divine right to success. So I agree with a lot of politicians out there when they say, 'We've got serious issues.' We do: immigration, infrastructure. I think income inequality's one of them.

The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.

No, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders, people don't want handouts. They want purpose.

Chronic insecurity will not be overcome by minimum wage laws, tax credits, means-tested benefits, or workfare.

Governments should end the extreme concentration of wealth in order to end poverty. This means tackling tax dodging but also increasing taxes on wealth and high incomes to ensure a more level playing field and generate the billions of dollars needed to invest in healthcare, education, and job creation.

Let's also, my friends, let's raise the minimum wage and support the 5 for 15 so you don't live in poverty.

Poverty is not inevitable. It is a human ill that we can fight if we decide to do so together.

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.

In the wealthiest nation on Earth, no one who works a full time job should have to live in poverty. That's a fundamental value proposition, an article of faith in our country that I know an overwhelming majority of Americans agree on.

I vote far-left. I am frequently angered by corporate greed and think education ought to be free and teachers paid well.

Mitt Romney has won the 2012 presidential nomination by promising Republicans that he would end a so-called 'culture of dependency' on welfare - welfare defined as 'free stuff' and food stamps for poor folks, not tax breaks for Big Oil or tax shelters for Bain executives.

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 answers to feeding hungry children is not fewer dollars to feed hungry children, it's to do more. It is to raise the minimum wage. It is to increase, not dismantle, the earned income tax credit. It is to make college more affordable for more middle class families, not more expensive. These are the things that grow our middle class.

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

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

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.

We are undemocratic, then, in our religion, as is proved by our efforts to “raise” the poor.

The real threat to the democracy is the half a nation in poverty.

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