Vandana Shiva Quotes

Tackling the extreme gap between the rich and the poor and tackling climate change is part of the same struggle.

We must create a kind of globalization that works for everyone... and not just for a few.

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.

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

Global growth and development that is strong, sustainable, and inclusive requires the challenges of inequality to be met head-on.

The Left is not interested in prosperity, it is interested in equality

I think people are very focused on the economic issues. They want an economy that works for everybody.

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 important for people of color to link up with issues around globalization, food security, health, the environment.

The measure of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, but whether, as Franklin Roosevelt said, we provide enough for those who have too little.

I've often said that far more sensible than a 'make poverty history' campaign would be a 'make wealth history' campaign. It is, after all, the wealthy people who do all the damage. The less money you earn, the fewer resources you use up.

Governance should be designed as an equalizer. Democrats are more inclined towards working families and those who are struggling for a better life.

Diamonds are a key component in the campaign to make poverty history.

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

There are great challenges before you, from the overwhelming nature of climate change to the unfairness of an economy that excludes so many from our collective wealth, and the changes necessary to build a more inclusive and generous Canada. I believe in you.

The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood.

We must stop trying to protect our planet from every imaginable, exaggerated or imaginary risk. And we must stop trying to protect it on the backs, and the graves, of the nation's and world's most powerless and impoverished people.

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

It is futile to seek solutions to environmental disturbances without considering them from a broad perspective that encompasses the factors underlying world poverty and the inequities within and among nations.

We have got to put a human face on the global economy.

Fair Shares for All, is Labour's Call

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

The global economy should not be supported by wage earners. They have to be able to build a future like any other human being.

The distribution of wealth is just as important as its creation.

Equality begins with economic empowerment.