Bernie Sanders Quotes

People don't need to become more aware of poverty - they need to know how to end it.

The measure of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, but whether, as Franklin Roosevelt said, we provide enough for those who have too little.

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

For the good of Spain, I should like there to be rather fewer rich people and rather fewer poor.

The distribution of wealth is just as important as its creation.

We do not postpone the participation of the lower classes of our people in the profits of economic enterprise, and in other countries, they do postpone it. In the long run, I think our policy is better, and we stand by it.

Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped poverty.

Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

Equality begins with economic empowerment.

Progress is more plausibly judged by the reduction of deprivation than by the further enrichment of the opulent

Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice.

We've got a lot of work to do economically in this country to bring about a more just and fair economy.

A holistic solution to income inequality is going to take a lot of work, but every time you prove that one of the strands is achievable and that it has a positive impact on people's lives you take another step towards proving the bigger theory of the case.

The only distribution of wealth which is the product of labor, which will be honest, will come through a more equal distribution of the productive capacity of men.

Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.

President Obama believes that income inequality is one of the most pressing matters facing the nation. If we are going to be a country that provides ladders of opportunity and believes in a thriving middle class, then we have to raise the minimum wage.

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

The best social programs we've had in this country are those that have united the middle class and the poor.

A strong economy is perfectly consistent with concern for equity and economic justice.

Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

Unless you’re at the very top, you need a more equitable economy.

Instead of favoring the wealthy, Civil Government ought carefully to protect the poor laborious and industrious Part of Mankind.

The social justice movement of the 21st century is economic development.

There is no question that we, as a country, need to deal with economic inequality across the country, and we need to make sure we have good-paying jobs for everyone.

There's enough wealth in the world that no one should go without.