Lynn Nottage Quotes

Who takes the blame: the leader who talks of poverty but lives in luxury, or the poor who choose a leader of that type?

one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.

No society is healthy when the gap between the rich and the poor is growing.

There is growing inequality. The families of the all-powerful Ministers are getting richer. The poor and hard-working Belizeans are getting poorer.

We are trying to say that low income and low job opportunities, after a long period of time, tears at the social fabric.

Economic chasm between people is something that is of interest to me. And something that I used to write about even as a child. It's something I've revisited a few times in my writings.

Things do go wrong. Not everyone benefits from the capitalist dream.

We can't have it so there are skyscrapers side by side with slums.

What I quickly discovered is that our so-called new South Africa has as much material for a story-teller as the old one. The landscape hasn't really changed. Who is in power now is different to who was in power then, but the squatter camps grow like cancer, the rich get richer, the poor get poorer.

Certainly, the poverty, the discrimination, the episodic unemployment could not but strike an inquiring youngster: why did these exist, and what could we do about them.

The economy is not governed with the bottom half in mind.

Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.

When the producers of 'Why Poverty?' came to me to do a film about poverty in the United States, I asked if I could do a film about wealth instead. I tend to make films about perpetrators, rather than victims.

There are only two families in the whole world, my old grandmother used to say, The Haves and the Have-Nots.

Poverty is born of super-abundance itself.

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

The saddest part is that the public officials, both State and Federal, are in league with the capitalists in making the rich richer, and the poor poorer.

Poverty divide not only nations but societies within nations.

America is like a melting pot. The people at the bottom get burned, and the scum floats to the top.

There are but two families in the world … The haves and the have-nots.

This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing.

As income inequality increases, social mobility falls.

This country is very good at creating wealth, but not very good at distributing it.

It is not squalid people who produce the squalid housing; it is the squalid housing that makes squalid people.

We meet in the midst of a nation brought to the verge of moral, political, and material ruin. The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes for a few, unprecedented in the history of mankind.