Scott Brooks Quotes

Poverty is not inevitable. It is a human ill that we can fight if we decide to do so together.

The biggest single challenge to America and our future is income inequality. We've got to fix it.

The world has grown rich and refined, but chiefly by the efforts of those who themselves continue poor and ignorant.

The benefits of growth have not trickled down. Income inequalities have become one of the biggest global challenges, attracting growing attention not only in academic literature but also among policymakers globally.

Economic chasm between people is something that is of interest to me. And something that I used to write about even as a child. It's something I've revisited a few times in my writings.

It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.

'Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream' is an intentionally angry film. How could it not be when the chance of an infant dying is five times greater on the Bronx Park Avenue than on Manhattan's Park Avenue just across the Harlem River?

The economy is not governed with the bottom half in mind.

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.

I'm concerned about - the oppression of the poor.

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone.

The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the nineteenth century.

Ridding the world of poverty is, of course, a fantasy.

The rich don’t want the poor to get ahead of them.

You can't find your way to social reform through the forces that made social reform necessary.

The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but a stepping stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till our political contests will become a war of the poor against the rich.

All down history, nine-tenths of mankind have been grinding corn for the remaining one-tenth, been paid with the husks, and bidden to thank God they had the husks.

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

The saddest part is that the public officials, both State and Federal, are in league with the capitalists in making the rich richer, and the poor poorer.

If you are poor today, you will always be poor. Only the rich now acquire riches.

It is the enormity of existing economic disparities that convinces me that only through new partnerships and coalitions, which unite private, public and quasi-public institutions, can they be overcome.

There never can be equality of rewards or possessions so long as the human plan contains varied talents and differing degrees of industry and thrift, but ours ought to be a country free from the great blotches of distressed poverty.

The dirty truth is that the rich are the great cause of poverty.

What does peace mean in a world in which the combined wealth of the world's 587 billionaires exceeds the combined gross domestic product of the world's 135 poorest countries?