Winnie Byanyima Quotes

The rich get richer and the poor get - children.

Success is somebody else's failure. Success is the American Dream we can keep dreaming because most people in most places, including thirty million of ourselves, live wide awake in the terrible reality of poverty.

I've lived the American Dream, but, sadly, for too many, the American Dream is fading.

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

Poor children fare worse than rich children on just about everything that social scientists measure.

The Great Gatsby Curve

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

The extent of and continuing increase in inequality in the United States greatly concern me.

More often than not, people who are poor... are right where they should be.

70% of children born into poverty will never make it to the middle class. The uncomfortable truth is that there are now a number of other countries with as much or more opportunity than ours. In fact, more people in Canada go on to surpass the income of their parents than in the United States.

One thin's sure and nothing's surer The rich get richer and the poor get - children. In the meantime, In between time...

This country isn't working for working people. It's working only for people at the top. That's not the American dream. That's the American nightmare.

The children of the poor are so apt to look as if the rich would have been over-blest with such! Alas for the angel capabilities, interrupted so soon with care, and with after life so sadly unfulfilled.

It is true that the top quintile is getting richer while the bottom is getting poorer, but the bottom is not the same people. There is, fortunately, a constant churning at the bottom as new immigrants move in and those who used to be on the bottom begin their long, thrilling upward climb to the American dream.

The world is richer than ever, and the gaps between rich and poor are wider.

Americans have known about mounting inequality and king-sized Wall Street bonuses for years. But we also had an entire genre of journalism dedicated to brushing the problem off.

When inequality gets too extreme, then it becomes useless for growth, and it can even become bad because it tends to lead to high perpetuation of inequality over time and low mobility.

If you go on TV and say there's no other country in the world where you can be born poor and become rich, you get a huge megaphone. If you tell the truth, which is that most of the studies show actually the United States is worse than anybody except Britain in upward mobility, there is no audience for you.

Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.

You need some inequality to grow... but extreme inequality is not only useless but can be harmful to growth because it reduces mobility and can lead to political capture of our democratic institutions.

The difference between rich and poor is becoming more extreme, and as income inequality widens the wealth gap in major nations, education, health and social mobility are all threatened.

Giving a poor person money keeps them poor.

America's 'social contract' is equal opportunity... yet we have failed in achieving that seminal goal.

The gap between the rich and poor is widening fast.

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.