Dorothea Lange Quotes

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

I care not how affluent some may be, provided that none be miserable in consequence of it.

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

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.

Inequality is bad for everyone, not just the middle class and the poor.

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

In America, the 1 percent and the 10 percent are doing just fine, but the people who are bearing the brunt of this economy are the ones who suffer.

A nation with their freezers full are dancing in their seats, while outside another nation is sleeping in the streets.

The interesting thing about class warfare is that it's only class warfare if it's up, not down. If you talk about welfare cheats or something, that's not class warfare because it's down; you have to talk about rich people before it's class warfare.

There's no question that in my lifetime, the contrast between what I called private affluence and public squalor has become very much greater.

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

In America, the poor have been invisibilised, because obviously this model of success that has been held out to the world must not show the poor, it must not show the condition of black people. It can only the successful ones, basketball players, musicians, Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell. But I think the time will come when the Occupy movement will have to somehow formulate something more than just anger.

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.

Greater inequality in Europe has made people less happy.

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

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

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.

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

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.

If class warfare is being waged in America, my class is clearly winning.

No one should have more than five times the wealth of the poorest person.

The association of poverty with progress is the enigma of our times.

Poverty divide not only nations but societies within nations.

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