Lexi Alexander Quotes

There's a wealth gap that is happening, and that is all over the world, you know? The rich are getting richer and holding a higher percentage of money or wealth that's out there.

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

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.

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

I think greed is a critical problem - the gap between the poor and the rich. The gap between the top 10 percent and the bottom 10 percent.

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.

I came from a rural background, and I didn't come in contact with a lot of wealthy people.

Segregation by race has declined gradually since 1970, but separation by income has grown steadily in the same period.

The social order we have built recognizes no exploitation of man by man. In our country there are no rich people to live at the expense of the workers and peasants. Just as there are no poor people living on the charity of others.

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

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.

Equality of opportunity as we have known it no longer exists… we are steering a steady course toward economic oligarchy, if we are not there already”

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

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

In both Russia and the U.S., there are a very small number of very, very rich people, and then there are a lot of people who don't have anything. The less inequality you have in a society, the more social peace you have. It's kind of a no-brainer.

I agree that income disparity is the great issue of our time. It is even broader and more difficult than the civil rights issues of the 1960s. The '99 percent' is not just a slogan. The disparity in income has left the middle class with lowered, not rising, income, and the poor unable to reach the middle class.

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

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

My greatest fear about a world in which racial reassignment surgery becomes common is that it then becomes an expression of all kinds of class privilege. You have a truly dystopian society divided between the people who can afford to be racially altered and perfected and the ones who can't.

Obama's economic policies widened the gap between the rich and the poor.

The French don't think everyone should have the same bank balance, but they're offended by extremes of inequality.

That divide between the rich and poor is so crazy, because even white kids are suffering now.

The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.