Jeremy Corbyn Quotes

We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

I am open-eyed about what poverty does to people.

When you talk about war on poverty it doesn't mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today.

Money can't buy poverty.

A large part of crime is economics - if people are working and and have a home and family to support, then I believe you can reduce the crime rate.

When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.

A shining city is perhaps all the President [Ronald Reagan] sees from the portico of the White House and the veranda of his ranch, where everyone seems to be doing well. But there's another part to the shining city. In this part of the shining city there are more poor than ever, more families in trouble, and more people who need help and can't find it.

Speak not of liberty — poverty is slavery.

Global poverty is a powder keg ignitable by our own indifference.

The poor will never cease out of the land.

It is unjust to let any starve, when we think it just to limit the wages of the poor, so as they can lay up nothing against the time of their impotency and want of work.

Poverty, discrimination and ignorance decrease growth.

… perceptions of poverty have gone up because there’s been rising inequality.

There’s been an economic war going on in this country and the middle class and the poor have been losing..

There is sometimes a tendency to assume that everyone in this great country has adequate housing. But when you go to certain places, certain neighborhoods, both urban and rural, you find out that's not the case, and I think we have to do much more.

I met a woman working 30 hours a week, trying to make ends meet, three children. And she slept the night before I met her in her car because she's homeless. We can do better. We can build a nation of shared prosperity.

It's one thing to recognize that the gap between the rich and everybody else is growing like a cancer; it's another thing to come up with useful solutions.

Labour ministers often look puzzled when reports show that Britain has one of the lowest levels of social mobility in the developed world. They just don't get it. They see poverty, inequality, fairness, as all about income. For the past 12 years, they have relied on tax credits to solve this. But tax credits do not solve poverty: they mask it.

Coronavirus has exposed for all what many of us already knew - some of our most important workers have barely enough to live on, and millions are condemned to financial insecurity, inequality and food poverty.

When our economy is truly healthy, and everyone rises with the tide of prosperity, then issues such as the lack of affordable housing, homelessness, and hunger are greatly diminished.

We need to truly understand what economic injustice and inequality looks like for hard-working Canadians grappling with it every day on the ground, at home and at work.

While we have created prosperity for many, too many are being left behind.