Winnie Byanyima Quotes

The central issue of our time remains the fact that the rich are getting richer and the poor, poorer.

We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.

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

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

Never forget that there are rich people in poor countries and poor people in rich countries.

The poor will never cease out of the land.

There is not enough wealth in the cities to redistribute it from those who are wealthy to those who are poor.

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

American economic greatness has never trickled down from the top.

No harm is done by the possession of Luxury by some people if only at the same time EVERYBODY HAS ENOUGH. The wrong incurred by the rich toward the poor lies solely in the fact that while they revel, the poor starve

There's more poor people in this country than there are rich, and I stick up for the poor people.

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

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.'

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

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

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

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

In a morally adjusted economy ... the rich should not get richer if the poor get poorer.

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.

I’m really not concerned about the very poor. They have a safety net.

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

This country is very good at creating wealth, but not very good at distributing it.

To one American family out of four, the idea of capitalism as a benign system of comfort, dignity, and personal advance is only a myth, or worse, a bitter mockery.

No society is healthy when the gap between the rich and the poor is growing.