Raheem DeVaughn Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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

Republicans look after the rich, and Democrats focus on the needs of the middle class. Neither of them looks after 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.

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

I think inequality has gone past the point where it's helping us all get rich, and it's really becoming a serious threat.

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.

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

Income inequity has to be addressed.

If someone offered me a hundred million dollars to make a movie? I would first remind him that there are 850 million people in the world who don't have enough to eat.

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

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.

To see poor people, their benefits being cut, to see pensions of Americans who have worked like my father, all their lives, and taken away, to see the rich just accumulating more and more wealth. I mean, it seems to me that there has to be a point where you have to say, 'No, this has to stop.'

If the nation is rich but people are poor, the country cannot be strong, and society will be unstable.

It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.

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

Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it.

We live in a world in which we're seeing an increasing gap between the haves and the have-nots.

Inequality is on the rise.

When the producers of 'Why Poverty?' came to me to do a film about poverty in the United States, I asked if I could do a film about wealth instead. I tend to make films about perpetrators, rather than victims.

Ridding the world of poverty is, of course, a fantasy.

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