Bill Clinton Quotes

The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.

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.

Class certainly loomed large in Katrina's aftermath. Blacks of means escaped the tragedy; blacks without them suffered and died. In reality, it is how race and class interact that made the situation for the poor so horrible on the Gulf Coast. The rigid caste system that punishes poor blacks and other minorities also targets poor whites.

'Munmun' happened because the human world's dizzying inequality - of wealth and of power - had begun to send me over the edge, and I had to write something to try to help myself understand it a little better.

Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.

The rich stick together; the poor and the marginalised are thrown together.

Class still matters in Britain today.

And understand: class differences will not save you.

In 1750, 75 percent of people on the planet worked to support the top 25 percent.

If everybody lives in the same way, there's something almost narcotizing about it, but the true misery of economic class difference is knowing that you can't have what somebody else does.

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.

The rich are few everywhere, the poor many.

The Privileged and the People form Two Nations.

What the poor did to the poor was the business of the poor, not the business of the proper people who ran the city.

We will not settle for a state that will settle for an underclass.

Poor men's words have little weight.

You can have class in the ghetto and trash in the White House.

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

There is an increase in inequality in the early stages of development.

To be concerned about inequality is not engaging in class warfare.

A dangerous chasm in the classes is alive and well in the United States of America. Don’t let anybody tell you it’s not.

I'm enough of a political junkie to know if you have large numbers of people much worse off, you're going to have consequences.

I could never understand why our lives felt like a struggle while those living off government largesse enjoyed trinkets that I only dreamed about.

Nobody talks about the poor. Everybody talks about the middle class and just kinda want to ignore that the poor exist. And you cannot ignore that they exist if you want to help them.

In Canada, we just have rich and poor, but we don't constantly remind poor people about it.