Tupac Shakur Quotes

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

Poverty is an anomaly to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings, goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury, and make sharper the contest between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.

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

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.

At the end of the day, we have an economy that works for the rich by cheating the poor, and unequal schools are the result of that, not the cause.

Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.

Hunger, the inseparable companion of the poor, is the offspring of the unequal distribution of the wealth and the injustices in this world. The rich do not know hunger.

If, in a country, the wealth is concentrated in the hands of only the few, it cannot witness harmony and stability.

I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.

The greatest issue before the people—the question of special privilege and unequal distribution of wealth.

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

Liberty is impossible if 36 thousand families at the top of the economic pyramid get as much income as 12 million families at the bottom.

No matter how we name and dissect inequality, we must keep explaining the larger downside of such concentrated extreme wealth.

Wealth is used to entrench inequality, not to trickle down and solve it.

Those who have little shall have less, and that those who have much shall take all that others have left.

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

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

Income inequity has to be addressed.

Greater inequality in Europe has made people less happy.

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

We have no right to luxuries while the poor want bread.

Most of the time in America, we're surrounded by oppressive inequality such that the wealthiest 1 percent collectively own substantially more than the bottom 90 percent. One escape from that is America's wild places.

In a world of global dependencies with no corresponding global polity and few tools of global justice, the rich of the world are free to pursue their own interests while paying no attention to the rest.

Richness in the world is a result of other people's poverty. We should begin to shorten the abyss between haves and have-nots.