Cesar Chavez Quotes

A considerable share of the world's population still cannot afford comfortable housing, education and quality health care.

I have said democracy and freedom do not work too well if you are hungry, if you are starving.

Excessive economic and social disparity between individuals and peoples of the one human race is a source of scandal and militates against social justice, equity, human dignity, as well as social and international peace.

Poverty is not only about income levels, but for lack of freedom that comes from physical insecurity

The hungry and the homeless don't care about liberty any more than they care about cultural heritage. To pretend that they do care is cant.

I can think of no honorable answer. Why must some of us deliberate between brands of toothpaste, while others deliberate between damp dirt and bone dust to quiet the fire of an empty stomach lining? There is nothing about the United States I can really explain to this child of another world.

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.'

Having enough to eat, being able to educate your children, have reasonably stable employment, and being able to live in a society which isn't collapsing around you-all of these things have been generally eroded.

Income inequity has to be addressed.

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.

I do not believe that the hungry man should be treated as subversive for expressing his suffering.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Oscar Wilde said the rich and the poor are equal - they can both sleep under the bridge. Right? Do they have a right? You're damn right they have a right!

Social injustice is what puts Scotland at its greatest disadvantage, and restoring the 50p tax rate will start to fight that.

As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.

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

One half of the world's people live on less than two dollars a day. This should concern our national security policy as well as our conscience.

Civil and political rights are critical, but not often the real problem for the destitute sick. My patients in Haiti can now vote but they can't get medical care or clean water.

People might not protest for overtly political or social causes, but when they can't feed themselves and their family, they will take to the streets.

Rural communities in Africa, South Asia and Latin America are where the majority of hungry people are and the inequality that exists between women and men in these communities is holding back progress. These women have a very tough time, so much is expected of them.

To deal with radicalism and extremism, we need to deal with economic inequality. This is what I learned from my experience in Solo and then in Jakarta.

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

Hunger, the inseparable companion of the poor, is the offspring of the unequal distribution of the wealth and the injustices in this world. The rich do not know hunger.

The poor will never cease out of the land.

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