Hubert Humphrey Quotes

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

Income inequality is the central problem all the way across the world.

I'm interested in illuminating the enormous disparity between vast poverty and the tiny upper class... This vast inequity is unfair by definition, and I am interested in illuminating that and, where possible, changing that.

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

Income inequity has to be addressed.

The world is richer than ever, and the gaps between rich and poor are wider.

No one should have more than five times the wealth of the poorest person.

The wall between rich and poor is a wall of glass which all can see.

…of all the causes of seditions and changes in the Republic, there is none greater than the excessive wealth of a few subjects, and the extreme poverty of the majority.

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

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

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

It is perfectly consistent - and also true - to say that the world poverty problem today is smaller (relative to world population) than before and yet also a much graver injustice.

A global human society, characterised by islands of wealth, surrounded by a sea of poverty, is unsustainable

The inequality between the world's individuals is staggering.

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

The greatest difficulty with the world is not its ability to produce, but the unwillingness to share.

What I worry about is the lack of understanding in society around the world that there is a divide in the world between those who have and those who do not.

1% of the population has all the money and the other 99% have nothing.

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.

Texas has arguably the most extreme separation between the well off and everyday people in the United States.

I think greed is a critical problem - the gap between the poor and the rich. The gap between the top 10 percent and the bottom 10 percent.

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

If someone offered me a hundred million dollars to make a movie? I would first remind him that there are 850 million people in the world who don't have enough to eat.

In a world of global dependencies with no corresponding global polity and few tools of global justice, the rich of the world are free to pursue their own interests while paying no attention to the rest.