Indira Gandhi Quotes

I'm interested in illuminating the enormous disparity between vast poverty and the tiny upper class... This vast inequity is unfair by definition, and I am interested in illuminating that and, where possible, changing that.

The messenger matters. When people of modest means complain about inequality, it usually gets written off as class warfare, but when billionaires complain, the problem is redefined.

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

Always remember: the alleviation of poverty is never a political or economic issue - it is moral.

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

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.

History shows that when you have continuing income inequality it is an invitation to class conflict.

We can have a democracy or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both.

To be concerned about inequality is not engaging in class warfare.

The miserable consumption of the poor is partly the result of the ostentatious demands of the rich. There isn't enough for both, and the latter get far more than they need...But could anything seriously be done about it?

The measure of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, but whether, as Franklin Roosevelt said, we provide enough for those who have too little.

It's immoral and wrong that the top 1 percent of the USA owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent. We should look at countries like Denmark and Sweden and Norway and look at what they've accomplished for their working people.

There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil.

Social justice rests on the hate towards those that enjoy a comfortable position, namely, upon envy.

They were the triumphant and insolent possessors; they had a hall, and a fire, and food and clothing and money, and so they might preach to hungry men, and the hungry men must be humble and listen. They were trying to save their souls- and who but a fool could fail to see that all that was the matter with their souls was that they had not managed to get a decent existence for their bodies?

Poverty is not inevitable. It is a human ill that we can fight if we decide to do so together.

In all the world, rich people are very unpopular.

We have no right to luxuries while the poor want bread.

Washing dishes as a 17-year-old in an Oxford college and seeing the privileged lifestyles of the undergraduates there convinced me that a system that allowed luxury for the few at the expense of the many needed to be challenged.

We don't need to bring down the rich folk to help the poor.

We are privileged. There are poor people out there. We must to do something to make them privileged.

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.

I would rather write for the instruction, or even the amusement of the poor than for the amusement of the rich.

The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.

I believe that as we face unparalleled prosperity in some quarters and deep impoverishment in others, it is the willingness of the next generation to bridge the gap between the two that will return us to our sense of purpose and focus.