Tim Bishop Quotes

Because market forces and institutions are ethically indifferent, they require a deliberative, communal intelligence to prevent extreme injustice.

As Justice gives every Man a Title to the product of his honest industry, and the fair Acquisitions of his Ancestors descended to him; so Charity gives every Man a Title to so much out of another’s plenty, as will keep him from extreme want, where he has no means to subsist otherwise.

If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans.

… spread the benefits and shrink the burdens all across the globe.

… some of us even think it is fair to expect a few people to pay more than they need to pay for a given commodity in order that a greater number of people may receive that commodity at a lower price to all.

It is right to be forward in the defense of the poor; no system that is not just as between rich and poor can hope to survive.

Creating wealth is not an end in itself. It needs to be shared by all.

I remember thinking Democrats and liberals were the good guys. They cared about the little guy. They cared about poor people. They cared about minorities.

A wealthy doctor who can help a poor man, and will not without a fee, has less sense of humanity than a poor ruffian, who kills a rich man to supply his necessities.

None of us can think we are exempt from concerns for the poor and for social justice.

Big businesses aren't the only ones in the economic ecosystem. Nobody should fall behind because of an unfair structure.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.

When we see people that are impoverished and people who are dealt an unfair hand, then if we have the power to help them, we should try to do that.

Always remember: the alleviation of poverty is never a political or economic issue - it is moral.

Franklin Roosevelt said the test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance to those who have much; it is whether we provide enough to those who have too little. This reconciliation package fails that test as well.

I believe in an America in which the fruits of productivity and prosperity are shared by all, by workers as well as owners, by those at the bottom as well as those at the top; an America in which the sacrifices required by national security are shared by all, by profiteers in the back offices as well as volunteers on the front lines.

We're asking those who have done well to do a little more for the people who need it.

Black men of integrity cannot make a deal with a politician and leave out the poor of the nation, all God's children.

I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody.

I firmly believe that our salvation depends on the poor.

I am still a socialist. I am a left-of-center politician. I believe that in Africa, if you see the poverty around us, you can't afford to be anything else.

My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak.

To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral.

So another challenge for our generation is to create global institutions that reflect our ideas of fairness and responsibility, not the ideas that were the basis of the last stage of financial development over these recent years.