George Foreman Quotes

Segregation by race has declined gradually since 1970, but separation by income has grown steadily in the same period.

BRAZILIFICATION:The widening gulf between the rich and the poor and the accompanying disappearance of the middle classes.

I hadn't found out yet that mankind consists of two very different races, the rich and the poor. It took me ... and plenty of other people . . . twenty years and the war to learn to stick to my class and ask the price of things before touching them, let alone setting my heart on them.

The interesting thing about class warfare is that it's only class warfare if it's up, not down. If you talk about welfare cheats or something, that's not class warfare because it's down; you have to talk about rich people before it's class warfare.

Class is rarely talked about in the United States; nowhere is there a more intense silence about the reality of class differences than in educational settings.

There are some people who say that they’re concerned only with poverty but not inequality. But I don’t think that is a sustainable thought. A lot of poverty is, in fact, inequality because of the connection between income and capability—having adequate resources to take part in the life of the community.

Inequality has the natural and necessary effect, under the present circumstances, of materializing our upper class, vulgarizing our middle class, and brutalizing our lower class.

In Guatemala, the gap between rich and poor must be eliminated, or we will continue to be the example of conflict in America.

When you have an economically unequal society, you end up with huge swaths of society that are disposable, basically.

Society was cut in two: those who had nothing united in common envy; those who had anything united in common terror.

In a process that had begun in the 1980s and suddenly accelerated in the early 2000s ... [t]he peaks of great wealth grew higher, rising up beyond the clouds, while the valleys of poverty sank lower into perpetual shadow. The once broad plateau of the middle class eroded away into a narrow ledge, with the white-knuckled occupants holding on for dear life.

The world is polarized. The middle class becomes smaller. The polarization makes the difference between rich and the poor big. This is true.

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

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

In a city like New York, you're aware of the rich and poor.

The rich are staying in school, and the poor are being drafted. I can't live with that.

The way corporate media likes to portray America is as a homogenous whole that high-five's each other at the Super Bowl. But what we have is a grotesque disparity between the rich and poor that is only getting wider.

If no man could become rich in Peru, no man could become poor.

Growing richer every day, for as rich and poor are relative terms, when the rich are growing poor, it is pretty much the same as if the poor were growing rich. Nobody is poor when the distinction between rich and poor is destroyed.

In middle-income countries, inequality becomes a problem because you can see there is a layer of people who are doing well, while the poor are still stuck there.

There are huge divorces and divides and chasms in black America between the have-gots and the have-nots, between the monied and the poor, between the educated and the non-educated. And there are huge and growing chasms daily. And I want to say that it's not simply about generation. It's about genre.

Poverty divide not only nations but societies within nations.

History shows that when you have continuing income inequality it is an invitation to class conflict.

I do think that there is both a very powerful sense of entitlement and a kind of bubble of wealth which makes it hard for the people at the very top to understand the travails of the middle class.

The United States is the richest and also the most unequal country in the world.