Jagmeet Singh Quotes

Inequality is on the rise.

Inequality is a poison that is destroying livelihoods, stripping families of dignity, and splitting communities.

With all the other -isms that we deal with, that sort of nameless -ism that we have in too many of our hearts against the poor in this country is what wounds us most broadly.

The poor are little folks living on little lands who want what we already have.

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

Economic inequality is a corrosive force that undermines economic growth, puts a brake on the fight against poverty, and sparks social unrest.

We need to start looking at some of the root causes of division. And one of the reasons why people are exploited to hate, to fear others is that people are afraid in their own lives.

I think that there always have been and always will be at least two Americas - the poor America, the second America, tends to be in the shadows. Sometimes it's an America of people in a ghetto of color, sometimes it's an economic ghetto, but definitely there is a parallel America which people in the dominant America prefer to ignore if they can.

The rich stick together; the poor and the marginalised are thrown together.

What I worry about is the lack of understanding in society around the world that there is a divide in the world between those who have and those who do not.

Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.

In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of 'the Haves' over the human rights of 'the Have Nots' is inevitably called into serious question.

In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.

If you have extremes of haves and have-nots where the gap keeps growing, the have-nots group together and create social disorder, as they can't see a way out of their situation.

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.

In a world filled with hate, prejudice, and protest, I find that I too am filled with hate, prejudice, and protest.

There's prejudice and poverty in Hungary as there is in every country.

In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people - and to hate those other people.

There are two Americas - separate, unequal, and no longer even acknowledging each other except on the barest cultural terms. In the one nation, new millionaires are minted every day. In the other, human beings no longer necessary to our economy, to our society, are being devalued and destroyed.

One of the most disruptive forces in politics is the feeling that wealth is concentrated in the hands of an alien people.

Why did the world ever become so unequal?

Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses.

The biggest problem is that the rich people paying the bills do not share the same goals as the poor people they are trying to help. The wealthy have weak incentives to get the right amount of the right thing to those who need it; the poor are in no position to complain if they don’t.

The real threat to the democracy is the half a nation in poverty.

We are at great risk in our democracy for failing to understand the great depths of poverty.