Melinda Gates Quotes

Poverty for a female, went beyond teh wretchedness of having no money.

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

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

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

The poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different, diverse reasons, again seems to escape some people.

To deal with radicalism and extremism, we need to deal with economic inequality. This is what I learned from my experience in Solo and then in Jakarta.

Social inequality kills. It unduly deprives individuals and communities experiencing social deprivation of their health, increases their burden of disease and disease, and cuts short their lives.

The poor are the Negroes of Europe.

Poor men's words have little weight.

Poverty is a corrosive brew, capable of eating away at the underpinnings of democratic life itself.

My perspective is never gonna change on that... We've got to do a much better job to take care of poor people, because you cannot put all the poor people in bad neighborhoods, send them to bad schools, and say, 'Good luck in life.' That's just not right.

Wealth does not trickle down to the poor. Oxfam knows this, the IMF knows this, the World Bank knows this. Poor people have always known this.

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

I was discriminated against because I was Jewish, Italian, black and Puerto Rican. But maybe the worst prejudice I experienced was against the poor. I grew up on welfare and often had to move in the middle of the night because we couldn't pay the rent.

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

We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.

We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.

I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of poverty trying to survive.

If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.

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

Now if you are condemned to life on welfare, I'm not so sure that being in a bigger welfare village is that much better than being in a smaller welfare village.

When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.

If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.

This awful concept of underclass is really horrifying. You're not lower class, you are excluded - outside.