Michael Dyson Quotes

There are only two families in the whole world, my old grandmother used to say, The Haves and the Have-Nots.

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.

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.

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.

The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor.

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

The rich are few everywhere, the poor many.

Poverty divide not only nations but societies within nations.

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

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

Obama's economic policies widened the gap between the rich and the poor.

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

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

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.

If everybody lives in the same way, there's something almost narcotizing about it, but the true misery of economic class difference is knowing that you can't have what somebody else does.

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

Italy is divided between us and them, rich and poor, north and south, young and old, employed and unemployed.

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.

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

Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty. As millionaires increase, pauperism grows. The more millionaires, the more paupers

The central issue of our time remains the fact that the rich are getting richer and the poor, poorer.

Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones or inhabitants of different planets ... the rich and the poor.

There are no great lords who possess everything and a herd of people who have nothing

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

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