Barack Obama Quotes

Why do some people have to go barefoot so that others can drive luxury cars? Why are some people able to live only 35 years in order that others can live 70 years? Why do some people have to be miserably poor in order that others can be extravagantly rich? I speak for all the children in the world who don't even have a piece of bread.

What I worry about is the lack of understanding in society around the world that there is a divide in the world between those who have and those who do not.

The planet is not yet safe. It suffers from the kind of greed that ignores not only global warming but an even more immediate bomb ready to detonate—the terrible gap on the globe between the rich and the poor, the technologically proficient and the majority left behind, the overfed and the starving, and the arrogance of our only superpower, my country, that sees only as far as the next election or tomorrow's Dow Jones Industrial Index.

One half of the world knows not how the other half lives.

It is perfectly consistent - and also true - to say that the world poverty problem today is smaller (relative to world population) than before and yet also a much graver injustice.

With one hand I take thousands of rubles from the poor, and with the other I hand back a few kopecks.

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

The greatest difficulty with the world is not its ability to produce, but the unwillingness to share.

Poverty is unnecessary.

America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.

The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.

Hunger, the inseparable companion of the poor, is the offspring of the unequal distribution of the wealth and the injustices in this world. The rich do not know hunger.

Global poverty is a powder keg ignitable by our own indifference.

... an apathetic indifferent meat in a sandwich that has an ever thinning slice of maniacal Plutocratic Gluttony on top and an ever thickening slice of rotten vermin rottening at the bottom.

There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, eat a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets.

What does peace mean in a world in which the combined wealth of the world's 587 billionaires exceeds the combined gross domestic product of the world's 135 poorest countries?

Trouble brews when we steal from the poor and give to the rich.

I think it's criminal the way poverty is allowed to flourish.

As recognized since ancient times, the coexistence of very rich and very poor leads to two possibilities, neither a happy one. The rich can rule alone, disenfranchising or even enslaving the poor, or the poor can rise up and confiscate the wealth of the rich.

It’s scandalous when one thinks about the people who live in a world in which they need not be hungry, in which they need not die without medical care, in which they need not be illiterate, they need not feel hopeless and miserable so much of the time, and yet they are.

It is manifestly unjust that a privileged few should continue to accumulate excess goods, squandering available resources, while masses of people are living in conditions of misery at the very lowest level of subsistence.

It is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork.

White folks' greed runs a world in need.

Government Steals from the needy and gives to the greedy

Those who have little shall have less, and that those who have much shall take all that others have left.