Barbara Ehrenreich Quotes

Poverty is the center of the Gospel.

You can be born-again and believe in Jesus, believe in Jesus' ideas and try to live them out, without becoming totally intolerant of other people.

Income inequity has to be addressed.

My observation of Christendom is that most of us tend to base our relationship with God on our performance instead of on His grace.

I do not believe in widening the income gap between rich and poor, and my life's work in the inner city of Detroit demonstrates that far more than any sound bite.

Truth, according to the Christian faith, is God's love for us in Jesus Christ. Therefore, truth is a relationship.

Social injustice is what puts Scotland at its greatest disadvantage, and restoring the 50p tax rate will start to fight that.

As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.

The most powerful idea that's entered the world in the last few thousand years - the idea of grace - is the reason I would like to be a Christian.

It's not my fault that there is this gap between rich and poor, it is the fault of governments. I want a different world. One where I don't wake up thinking I'm so lucky to be able to feed my daughter.

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

I'm interested in illuminating the enormous disparity between vast poverty and the tiny upper class... This vast inequity is unfair by definition, and I am interested in illuminating that and, where possible, changing that.

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

When I feed the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.

We are undemocratic, then, in our religion, as is proved by our efforts to “raise” the poor.

For the good of Spain, I should like there to be rather fewer rich people and rather fewer poor.

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

Poverty violates core American values. It challenges the American dream’s promise of prosperity for anyone who works hard, a faith central to the national ethic.

We used to wage war on poverty—not poor people.

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

Economic inequality is not about food stamps and homeless shelters. It is about being a devotee of social justice and equality.

I think that he was a prophet. I've had a difficult time coming to terms with Jesus Christ as the Son of God.

For me, it is one of the 'signs of the times' that the idea of God's mercy is becoming increasingly central and dominant.

I'm not persuaded that the opposite of poverty is wealth - I've come to believe... that the opposite of poverty is justice.

Yes, climate change is an existential threat, but there's also kind of this existential issue of why is it that as our society is progressing... things seem to be regressing and getting worse for a large number of people? Why is that happening? How do we fix that?