Lori Lightfoot Quotes

Global growth and development that is strong, sustainable, and inclusive requires the challenges of inequality to be met head-on.

Economic growth is the key. Economic growth is the key to everything. But once you have economic growth, it is important that we reach out to people who live in the shadows, the people who don't seem to ever think that they get a fair deal.

The future of America is not an entitlement. We have been given a treasure chest of gifts and opportunities, but some people are being left behind, and success is not sustainable unless it is shared.

Our investments in social justice and basic needs are as vital to our future as fiscal and macroeconomic reforms. A nation deeply divided will not stand. And it certainly will not move forward.

a kid should have an equal shot at a good life in our city, regardless of what part of town they happen to be born in.

When governance improves, there will be less have-nots and more haves.

Since I became First Minister, I have made clear my priority to alleviate poverty and tackle inequality in Scotland. Ensuring that everyone can do better in life will not only make Scotland fairer, but it will also make it a more prosperous place.

The only way to have a better world and end poverty is by closing the gap between the top and the bottom.

A basic element of the American dream is equal access to education as the lubricant of social and economic mobility.

Poverty must be reduced not only for reasons of moral and justice, but also of security.

I don't mind the rich getting richer, but the poor shouldn't be getting poorer, and there should be more people moving into the middle class.

President Obama believes that income inequality is one of the most pressing matters facing the nation. If we are going to be a country that provides ladders of opportunity and believes in a thriving middle class, then we have to raise the minimum wage.

You need massive recruitment to tell the poorest of the poor what is possible.

We hold the view that all men are created equal." Now, what did they mean by that? Did they mean, my friends, to say that all men were created equal and that that meant that any one man was born to inherit $10 billion and that another child was to be born to inherit nothing? Did that mean, my friends, that someone would come into this world without having had an opportunity, of course, to have hit one lick of work, should be born with more than it and all of its children and children's children could every dispose of, but that another one would have to be born into a life of starvation?

To be prosperous is not to be superior, and should form no barrier between men. Wealth ought not to secure the prosperous the slightest consideration.

There never can be equality of rewards or possessions so long as the human plan contains varied talents and differing degrees of industry and thrift, but ours ought to be a country free from the great blotches of distressed poverty.

Equality begins with economic empowerment.

Huge inequality gaps in a democratic society will tend to erode the respect for and security of doctrines of private property. The large majority must either own property or have reasonable prospects of attaining property if they are to support and maintain private property laws and traditions.

Prohibiting Poverty

No country now in transition will be able to accommodate demands for either economic security or social justice anytime soon.

I have tried to suggest that injustice is not necessary economic -- that the economics can work, and has often worked, when the constituency for it is animated. The politics of equality -- that is a little harder.

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

The social justice movement of the 21st century is economic development.

The question is always whether all of Baltimore will rise together or whether we will leave some behind.

My goal is to eradicate poverty. I think we can't have equality until we eradicate poverty.