Andrew Mitchell Quotes

Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world's poorest people.

India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people.

I think the point about ActionAid is what it's asking people to do is engage with poor people in developing countries and understand what their lives are like and understand how the way we live our lives impacts on theirs.

It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.

There are huge divorces and divides and chasms in black America between the have-gots and the have-nots, between the monied and the poor, between the educated and the non-educated. And there are huge and growing chasms daily. And I want to say that it's not simply about generation. It's about genre.

One of the reasons inequality gets so deep in this country is that everyone wants to be rich. That's the American ideal. Poor people don't like talking about poverty because even though they might live in the projects surrounded by other poor people and have, like, ten dollars in the bank, they don't like to think of themselves as poor.

There is still a severe and scary amount of extreme poverty in rural parts of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Burma and sub-Saharan Africa.

It's such a different spectrum of tragedies when you talk to people in developing countries.

The developing world is poor. It needs capital.

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

It is not fair that some people should have a better chance in life simply because of where they live.

‘Money can't buy happiness.’ That's just a lie we tell poor people to keep them from rioting in the streets

I was also pained to notice an institution which I certainly did not expect to find in this country – I mean caste. Your rich people are really Brahmins, and your poor people are Sudras.

… perceptions of poverty have gone up because there’s been rising inequality.

When the World Economic Forum was established in 1971, the global population was four billion, of which 50% lived in poverty.

I recognize now that the conditions that Indians are living in are the conditions that poor people everywhere are living in.

There are many different ways to be poor in the world but increasingly there seems to be one single way to be rich.

The poverty of the West is far more difficult to solve than the poverty of India.

All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.

The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.

I wanted to raise the voice of a lot of the people that I knew growing up, and this was, for the most part, poor people who had extraordinary dreams but also very amazing obstacles.

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

We live increasingly in a world of haves and have-nots, of gated communities next to ghettos, of extreme poverty and unbelievable riches. Some enjoy rights that are completely denied to others. Relative inequalities are exploding, and the world's poorest, despite all the advances of globalisation, may even be getting poorer.

Class still matters in Britain today.

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.