Damian Marley Quotes

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

I do not believe in widening the income gap between rich and poor, and my life's work in the inner city of Detroit demonstrates that far more than any sound bite.

It's not my fault that there is this gap between rich and poor, it is the fault of governments. I want a different world. One where I don't wake up thinking I'm so lucky to be able to feed my daughter.

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

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

Poor men's words have little weight.

This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing.

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

What does peace mean in a world in which the combined wealth of the world's 587 billionaires exceeds the combined gross domestic product of the world's 135 poorest countries?

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

I would like to see an end to war, poverty, and unnecessary human suffering. But I can't see it in a monetary-based system where the richest nations control most of the world's resources.

Economic inequality is not about food stamps and homeless shelters. It is about being a devotee of social justice and equality.

Nobody talks about the poor. Everybody talks about the middle class and just kinda want to ignore that the poor exist. And you cannot ignore that they exist if you want to help them.

We always keep saying, 'We're the best, we're the best.' Other countries offer healthcare for their people. We don't, so how are we the best there? We've got poverty all over the place, and it's the haves and the have-nots, so how are we the best there?

We remain a highly unequal society in which poverty and prosperity are still defined by race as well as gender.

I fall into the camp that income inequality is the biggest problem we face.

I consider the homeless just as important as the richest of the rich.

I think, unfortunately, we've always lived in a world of massive inequality: inequality between the haves and the have-nots, inequality between men and women that not only exists temporally but geographically as well.

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

My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak. What I see in my country, progressively over these years, is that the rich have got richer, the poor have got poorer. The rich have become indifferent through a philosophy of greed, and the poorer have become hopeless because they're not properly cared for. That's actually something that is happening in many Western societies. Your own, I am told, is not free from it.

There can be no rule of God in the present state of iniquitous inequalities in which a few roll in riches and the masses do not get enough to eat.

In an era of global abundance, our world has the resources to reduce dramatically the massive divides that persist between rich and poor, if only those resources can be unleashed in the service of all peoples.

There is a common tendency to ignore the poor or to develop some rationalisation for the good fortune of the fortunate.

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.