Nina Turner Quotes

The poor will never cease out of the land.

We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.

The middle class of this country, our historic backbone and our best hope for a strong society in the future, is losing its place at the table.

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

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

If you have extremes of haves and have-nots where the gap keeps growing, the have-nots group together and create social disorder, as they can't see a way out of their situation.

You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.

I don't mind the rich getting richer, but the poor shouldn't be getting poorer, and there should be more people moving into the middle class.

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

The middle class has just fallen further and further behind the rich.

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

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

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

Poor men's words have little weight.

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

No society is healthy when the gap between the rich and the poor is growing.

I do think that there is both a very powerful sense of entitlement and a kind of bubble of wealth which makes it hard for the people at the very top to understand the travails of the middle class.

I agree that income disparity is the great issue of our time. It is even broader and more difficult than the civil rights issues of the 1960s. The '99 percent' is not just a slogan. The disparity in income has left the middle class with lowered, not rising, income, and the poor unable to reach the middle class.

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

Income inequality has become so prevalent in the U.S. that examples of its negative impact on the middle class are as common as Kanye West saying something cringeworthy in the media.

There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.

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

Income inequality is troubling because, among other things, it means that many people in our society don't have the opportunities to advance themselves.

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

Few, save the poor, feel for the poor.