Cyril Ramaphosa Quotes

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

Inequality is on the rise in Canada and those at the top have no idea what life is like for most Canadian families.

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.'

Economic chasm between people is something that is of interest to me. And something that I used to write about even as a child. It's something I've revisited a few times in my writings.

Income inequality is troubling because, among other things, it means that many people in our society don't have the opportunities to advance themselves.

I do not believe in widening the income gap between rich and poor, and my life's work in the inner city of Detroit demonstrates that far more than any sound bite.

To be clear, the gap between the have gots and the have nots is widening. In this most multicultural, multiracial, multiethnic America ever, that concerns me.

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.

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.

For the good of Spain, I should like there to be rather fewer rich people and rather fewer poor.

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 first phase of economic development you have rising inequality.

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

The idea of solving as huge and long-term a problem as inequality - which, for my money, is the biggest single problem we have here at home - just never gets serious concern from both sides.

I fall into the camp that income inequality is the biggest problem we face.

I think, unfortunately, we've always lived in a world of massive inequality: inequality between the haves and the have-nots, inequality between men and women that not only exists temporally but geographically as well.

The whole world is set up so that for places like Switzerland to exist, that are crime-free and with the best care for everybody, you have to have places like Sudan, or Jamaica. But really, there's enough to share, when you check it. It's not that complicated, really. It's probably less thinking and more feeling that's required.

The only way to have a better world and end poverty is by closing the gap between the top and the bottom.

American journalists tend to treat inequality as a fact of life. But it needn't be.

I think greed is a critical problem - the gap between the poor and the rich. The gap between the top 10 percent and the bottom 10 percent.

When inequality gets too extreme, then it becomes useless for growth, and it can even become bad because it tends to lead to high perpetuation of inequality over time and low mobility.

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.

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