B. R. Ambedkar Quotes

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

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

Poor men's words have little weight.

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

… in the old days there were one thousand castes and destinies in India. These days, there are just two castes: Men with Big Bellies and Men with Small Bellies. And only two destinies: eat – or get eaten up

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

You have to be interested in inequality. The issue of inequality and that of poverty are not separable.

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.'

Bolivia is not yet a country of equals.

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

I think we've made tremendous progress on racism. We've even made progress on war. We've made almost no progress on poverty.

It's not my fault that there is this gap between rich and poor, it is the fault of governments. I want a different world. One where I don't wake up thinking I'm so lucky to be able to feed my daughter.

There are huge divorces and divides and chasms in black America between the have-gots and the have-nots, between the monied and the poor, between the educated and the non-educated. And there are huge and growing chasms daily. And I want to say that it's not simply about generation. It's about genre.

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.

The messenger matters. When people of modest means complain about inequality, it usually gets written off as class warfare, but when billionaires complain, the problem is redefined.

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

Social inequality … divides society into two classes -- the wage-slaves and the grabbers of capital

An imbalance between the rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

Why did the world ever become so unequal?

The rich are few everywhere, the poor many.

The needs of the poor take priority over the desires of the rich

There are only two families in the whole world, my old grandmother used to say, The Haves and the Have-Nots.

Who takes the blame: the leader who talks of poverty but lives in luxury, or the poor who choose a leader of that type?

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

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.