Marian Wright Edelman Quotes

The outlook for the Federal budget is bleak.

We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.

Poverty affects people of all races.

I think we've made tremendous progress on racism. We've even made progress on war. We've made almost no progress on poverty.

We should not, cannot, and will not balance the budget on the backs of our veterans.

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

More often than not, people who are poor... are right where they should be.

We fought a war on poverty, and poverty won

We think of violence as being conflict and fighting and wars and so forth, but the most ongoing horrific measure of violence is in the horrible poverty of the Third World... and the poverty in the United States as well. We have our own Third World here. And we have to first become aware of that and how to help and solve that.

Sometimes you hear in the United States that in Columbia there is a war between rich and poor, between people that are defending the poor and the rich.

Why are millions spent on the war each day, while not a penny is available for ... artists or the poor? Why do people have to starve when mountians of food are rotting away in other parts of the world? Oh, why are people so crazy?

Rich by nature, poor by policy' might be written over Canada's door.

There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil.

Martin Luther King was talking about racism, war and poverty. I think we have made progress enormous progress in racism and war, but we have made little or no progress in poverty. And it's because the economy has gotten more and more complex as we have globalized.

I love listening to these guys give us lectures about debt and deficits. I inherited a trillion-dollar deficit. ... This notion that somehow we caused the deficits is just wrong. It's just not true. ... If they start trying to give you a bunch of facts and figures suggesting that it's true, what they're not telling you is they baked all this stuff into the cake with those tax cuts and a prescription drug plan that they didn't pay for and the wars.

The class war is over.

Government spending is always a “tax” burden on the American people and is never equally or fairly distributed. The poor and low-middle income workers always suffer the most from the deceitful tax of inflation and borrowing.

We must move from revenue-neutral to revenue-reducing tax reform, because the federal government spends far too much money.

Wars are bred by poverty and oppression. Continued peace is possible only in a relatively free and prosperous world.

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

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

No man should be made poor so another man can be made rich.

In Delhi there was no war other than the usual one -- the war of the rich against the poor.

If I wrote in Michael Harrington's time, roughly 50 years later when he published 'The Other America', I'd still be writing about poverty and also entrenched racial injustice.

I want to end austerity.