Eduardo Galeano Quotes

The issue of wealth inequality is ... the great moral issue of our time.

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

… perceptions of poverty have gone up because there’s been rising inequality.

We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.

If the nation is rich but people are poor, the country cannot be strong, and society will be unstable.

The poor will never cease out of the land.

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

It is unjust to let any starve, when we think it just to limit the wages of the poor, so as they can lay up nothing against the time of their impotency and want of work.

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

The burning issue of our time is the growing inequality in income and wealth in our country.

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.

My goal is to eradicate poverty. I think we can't have equality until we eradicate poverty.

What good is a high GDP if some, or even many, Americans are left behind?

I try to deal with the poverty gap - to do policies for all of us rather than only for the wealthy.

A nation will not survive morally or economically when so few have so much and so many have so little.

Britain has no divine right to be one of the richest countries in the world.

Income inequity has to be addressed.

The only way to have a better world and end poverty is by closing the gap between the top and the bottom.

Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.

We are one of the richest countries in the world, and there is absolutely no reason why anyone should have to live in poverty.

It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.

Inequality has risen to the point that it seems to me worthwhile for the U.S. to seriously consider taking the risk of making our economy more rewarding for more of the people.

Republicans look after the rich, and Democrats focus on the needs of the middle class. Neither of them looks after the poor.

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

In a morally adjusted economy ... the rich should not get richer if the poor get poorer.