Ziggy Marley Quotes

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

The world today is anything but trouble-free.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.

Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.

If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery.

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

I really do think I can make a contribution in helping eliminate the disparity here in Australia and doing my small bit to help eliminate slavery around the world. These are huge issues for our fellow countrymen and our fellows in the world, where slavery is growing at an alarming rate, and it needs to be arrested.

Inequality doesn't create unhappiness.

If we continue to create a world where there is poverty and disrespect, there will continue to be terrorism.

Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side; of the face can smile while the other is pinched.

Inequality causes problems by creating fissures in societies, leaving those at the bottom feeling marginalized or disenfranchised.

You've got a beautiful country with so many beautiful people and so many beautiful things happening and stuff like that lets it down. I feel sad for them.

Most of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and have nots.

America is like a melting pot. The people at the bottom get burned, and the scum floats to the top.

There was no pity take of the poor people, who wrought never no manner of treason, yet they bought it dearer than the great personages, such as had done the evil and trespass

If you are on the wrong side of society you can’t win.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

People who are underprivileged have more to grieve and have more to overcome.

This is a sick business. It's so sad.

We are dealing with the greater challenges of globalisation. It is generating, in many cases, an increase in the levels of inequality in societies... that is undesirable.

There is no excuse for inaction in the face of economic injustice.

Poverty is rooted in injustice.

India allows you the luxury of a million inequalities. You can be a schoolboy selling tea to passengers sitting in a state transport bus, but you are royalty when compared to a shirtless, barefoot village boy, from what was traditionally considered an untouchable caste, living on snails and small fish - and sometimes rats.

I learnt a hard fact: that dignity is a luxury in our country.