Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes

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

Never in the history of the world have so many people been so rich; never in the history of the world have so many of those same people felt themselves so poor.

We live increasingly in a world of haves and have-nots, of gated communities next to ghettos, of extreme poverty and unbelievable riches. Some enjoy rights that are completely denied to others. Relative inequalities are exploding, and the world's poorest, despite all the advances of globalisation, may even be getting poorer.

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

Money can't buy poverty.

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.

The dirty truth is that the rich are the great cause of poverty.

As income inequality increases, social mobility falls.

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

… perceptions of poverty have gone up because there’s been rising inequality.

There aren't any poor cable hosts.

The U.S. has some of the most significant income inequality in the developed world, yet people seem routinely to underestimate that fact.

You are only as rich as where you come from, and Nigeria has a lot of poverty.

There were but two families in the world, Have-much and Have-little.

The ground is the symbol for the poor people; the poor people is gonna open up this whole world and swallow up the rich people. It's gonna be like - there might be some cannibalism out this mother. They might eat the rich.

We know by now how to photograph poor people. What we don't know is how to photograph affluence - whose other face is poverty.

The rich are different from us.

It's easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.

I was very sad for many days when I discovered that in the world there were poor people and rich people; and the strange thing is that the existence of the poor did not cause me as much pain as the knowledge that at the same time there were people who were rich.

In America, we have freedom of choice. But some are free to choose between Lamborghini and Rolls Royce while others are free to choose which dumpster they're going to have their meal out of next. Some are free to choose which, you know, homes and farms to foreclosed on, while others choose which bridge they're going to sleep under tonight.

The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.

India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people.

Greater inequality in Europe has made people less happy.

Half the U.S. population owns barely 2 percent of its wealth, putting the United States near Rwanda and Uganda and below such nations as pre-Arab Spring Tunisia and Egypt when measured by degrees of income inequality.