Paulo Freire Quotes

The poor will never cease out of the land.

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

No matter how we name and dissect inequality, we must keep explaining the larger downside of such concentrated extreme wealth.

Land ownership in Guatemala is more unequal than anywhere else in Latin America. Roughly 90 percent of Guatemalan farms are too small to support a family. A tiny group of Guatemalans owns a third of the country's arable land; more than 300,000 landless peasants must scrounge a living as best they can.

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

The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.

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

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.

In Colombia today we have 16% of the population, which is a very small amount of the population owning 90% of the land and 20 years ago it wasn't like that.

Greater inequality in Europe has made people less happy.

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

In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of 'the Haves' over the human rights of 'the Have Nots' is inevitably called into serious question.

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.

There's no question that how Johannesburg operates is what made me interested in the idea of wealth discrepancy. 'Elysium' could be a metaphor for just Jo'burg, but it's also a metaphor for the Third World and the First World. And in science fiction, separation of wealth is a really interesting idea to mess with.

I often say that poverty needs no passport to travel.

And if you look at the reality in the United States, where you have more than 40 million people below the poverty line and 42 million on food stamps, and then you look at poverty around the world, clearly the way we're running the engine of capitalism is not serving us well.

If the nation is rich but people are poor, the country cannot be strong, and society will be unstable.

Richness in the world is a result of other people's poverty. We should begin to shorten the abyss between haves and have-nots.

We need wealthy dogs off the seats of power. They're taking us back to feudalism and I really don't want that. But I'm very far from being a socialist.

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.

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

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.

Poverty divide not only nations but societies within nations.

There are no great lords who possess everything and a herd of people who have nothing

Unequal wealth distribution is a risk factor for inequality that must be attacked by policies.