Rigoberta Menchu Quotes

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

... popular art has no chance of a healthy life, or, indeed, of a life at all, till we are on the way to fill up this terrible gulf between riches and poverty.

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

In a city like New York, you're aware of the rich and poor.

Texas has arguably the most extreme separation between the well off and everyday people in the United States.

The Occupy Wall Street protests at last suggest that America's wealth gap is once again becoming an organizing political principle in the country.

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

The way corporate media likes to portray America is as a homogenous whole that high-five's each other at the Super Bowl. But what we have is a grotesque disparity between the rich and poor that is only getting wider.

We don't need to bring down the rich folk to help the poor.

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.

I don't want there to be this separation between the rich and poor. I may be part of the three percent because I've been fortunate and done well for myself, but I will never forget about the 97 percent. That was me growing up. I was so poor I dreamt about being just 'regular poor,' not 'poor, poor.'

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

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

Poverty divide not only nations but societies within nations.

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

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

We always keep saying, 'We're the best, we're the best.' Other countries offer healthcare for their people. We don't, so how are we the best there? We've got poverty all over the place, and it's the haves and the have-nots, so how are we the best there?

Economic inequality is a corrosive force that undermines economic growth, puts a brake on the fight against poverty, and sparks social unrest.

In America, the 1 percent and the 10 percent are doing just fine, but the people who are bearing the brunt of this economy are the ones who suffer.

BRAZILIFICATION:The widening gulf between the rich and the poor and the accompanying disappearance of the middle classes.

Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.

A nation will not survive morally or economically when so few have so much and so many have so little.

The gap between rich and poor is, in fact, widening enormously. This idea of building up the powers of people who are already powerful and keeping everyone else back is a recipe for endless misery and conflict.

My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak. What I see in my country, progressively over these years, is that the rich have got richer, the poor have got poorer. The rich have become indifferent through a philosophy of greed, and the poorer have become hopeless because they're not properly cared for. That's actually something that is happening in many Western societies. Your own, I am told, is not free from it.

A global human society, characterised by islands of wealth, surrounded by a sea of poverty, is unsustainable