Helene D. Gayle Quotes

An imbalance between the rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.

This College system went into practice to draw a line of demarcation between the two classes of society—it separated the children of the rich from the children of the poor.

There are but two families in the world … The haves and the have-nots.

The financial rewards of economic change have accrued disproportionately to the most talented and well-educated members of society.

No society is healthy when the gap between the rich and the poor is growing.

Class still matters in Britain today.

Colour is not the issue in America; class is.

When inequality gets too extreme, then it becomes useless for growth, and it can even become bad because it tends to lead to high perpetuation of inequality over time and low mobility.

They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

To be clear, the gap between the have gots and the have nots is widening. In this most multicultural, multiracial, multiethnic America ever, that concerns me.

The gap between the rich and poor is widening fast.

The messenger matters. When people of modest means complain about inequality, it usually gets written off as class warfare, but when billionaires complain, the problem is redefined.

Social inequality … divides society into two classes -- the wage-slaves and the grabbers of capital

Society is composed of two great classes-those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.

The Privileged and the People form Two Nations.

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

one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.

You can have class in the ghetto and trash in the White House.

As income inequality increases, social mobility falls.

In the first phase of economic development you have rising inequality.

In this respect, higher education is now causing most of the growing inequality and strengthening class structure of the United States.

Americans have historically been more willing than Europeans to tolerate high inequality levels if accompanied by strong economic growth and a healthy middle class.

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