William E. Vaughan Quotes

The poor will never cease out of the land.

Inequality of income is bad for everyone, not just the poor and the middle class.

Never forget that there are rich people in poor countries and poor people in rich countries.

Inequality is bad for everyone, not just the middle class and the poor.

In the developed world, income inequality within the country is the most important determinant of health standards and life expectancy.

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

Liberty is impossible if 36 thousand families at the top of the economic pyramid get as much income as 12 million families at the bottom.

There's more poor people in this country than there are rich, and I stick up for the poor people.

Income inequity has to be addressed.

One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.

We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.

The money I pay for my cultural experiences came willingly from my own pocket - they were not the result of bread being removed from the mouths of the poor so that Miss Thing here could mince off to the circus smelling of roses.

The economy is not governed with the bottom half in mind.

In middle-income countries, inequality becomes a problem because you can see there is a layer of people who are doing well, while the poor are still stuck there.

Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the remit of the state. More money gives less extra happiness the richer we get, yet we are addicted to earning and spending more every year.

The issue of wealth inequality is ... the great moral issue of our time.

The central issue of our time remains the fact that the rich are getting richer and the poor, poorer.

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.

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

So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings, goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury, and make sharper the contest between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.

It is unjust to let any starve, when we think it just to limit the wages of the poor, so as they can lay up nothing against the time of their impotency and want of work.

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

This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing.

Yet today our splendid theory of government is confronted by a great peril. We have become blind to evils that menace us. We are confronted with glutted markets and idle labor. It is a condition that makes it possible for a few men to become landlords of a proud city like this while God's poor are packed in the slums. Such a condition is not only a menace to Republican institutions, but a travesty upon the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Income inequality is the central problem all the way across the world.