Luciana Berger Quotes

The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.

The economy is not governed with the bottom half in mind.

Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.

Disparity is Australia's worst social problem. Thousands of lives are slowly being crushed, while billions are wasted on thousands of little initiatives trying to 'close the gap.'

I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty.

America stands as a beacon of hope and the possibility of a better life - but it is also a nation where nearly 1 in 4 children live in poverty.

The biggest single challenge to America and our future is income inequality. We've got to fix it.

That fallacy flies in the face of studies that show, every day, in every way, things are getting a little worse for America's minorities relative to the progress made by those in the top percentiles of assets and income.

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

This is the great moral issue of our day. 37 million people who live in poverty. It’s wrong.

Welfare for the wealthy simply can no longer be afforded.

One wonders whether the ethnic categorization effort at finding solutions to problems that cross ethnic boundaries. Poverty is poverty is poverty. It does not have peculiar ethnic characteristics.

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

Problems of persistent poverty cannot be addressed unless they are acknowledged.

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

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

There is growing inequality. The families of the all-powerful Ministers are getting richer. The poor and hard-working Belizeans are getting poorer.

The wealth disparity between the lowest and the highest continues to expand, and that's inappropriate.

There is a lot of inequality in Colombia. We have to correct that.

What's interesting is that you've got a lot of overlap between supporters of different parties and different candidates who feel regardless of who's been in power, the rich have got richer and half the country's got poorer.

For all the obsession in Washington and in college faculty lounges over income inequality, why isn't there more outrage over government policies that exacerbate the problem? There are hundreds of programs that make the poor poorer and increase poverty in America.

Poverty is curable, but it’s just not done, because it's not profitable. And that is the kind of violence that's perpetuated on humanity.

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

Contrary to age-old prejudices, the wealth of the rich is not the cause of the poverty of the poor, but helps to alleviate that poverty.

Economic chasm between people is something that is of interest to me. And something that I used to write about even as a child. It's something I've revisited a few times in my writings.