Winnie Byanyima Quotes

Our family's fortune is growing faster than ever. We're a part of a small number of American families that own most of the country's wealth. But having so much in the hands of so few can't be good for America.

The greatest issue before the people—the question of special privilege and unequal distribution of wealth.

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.

Wealth is used to entrench inequality, not to trickle down and solve it.

The laws are stacked for the wealthy.

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.

Why did the world ever become so unequal?

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

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.

This country is very good at creating wealth, but not very good at distributing it.

Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.

American economic greatness has never trickled down from the top.

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

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.

Let some people get rich first.

We have concentrated wealth and capital to such a degree that the vast majority of us don't have the discretionary dollars to make our economy go and grow.

There are two Americas. One which influences government and economic policy and the other which must live with the results.

There’s just too much money in the hands of too few.

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

Triumphant capitalism has unleashed a powerful drive toward inequality, not improvement, in the social sphere.

Equality of opportunity as we have known it no longer exists… we are steering a steady course toward economic oligarchy, if we are not there already”

One big part of the reason we have so much inequality is that the top 1 percent wants it that way.

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

No harm is done by the possession of Luxury by some people if only at the same time EVERYBODY HAS ENOUGH. The wrong incurred by the rich toward the poor lies solely in the fact that while they revel, the poor starve

Globalization in the aggregate generates wealth, no question. But it gets concentrated.