Saikat Chakrabarti Quotes

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

I started out young and idealistic, and it was all about social justice and fair distribution of resources. I didn't understand why everybody couldn't be equally prosperous.

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.

I'm very keen that we have this debate about the good parts of inequality and the bad parts of inequality. It's not a one-sided thing.

It is true that globalization has fueled greater income inequality. But much of this increase should be welcomed, not condemned. There is nothing inherently bad about inequality. Whether it is bad depends on how it comes about and what it does.

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

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 think one of the biggest mistakes that America has made - and maybe the world because this is, sort of, the core of communism and socialism - is that you can have perfect solutions to social problems like poverty, like crime. You're not going to eliminate all crime. Maybe you'll never eliminate all poverty.

If you get so unequal that people believe they don't have a chance, that the field isn't level for them and their children, that puts democracy at risk.

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

There is another world out there, the existence of which the Court, I suspect, either chooses to ignore or fears to recognize. And so the cancer of poverty will continue to grow.

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

Humanity can not be made equal by declarations on paper. Unless the material conditions for equality exist

No nation can be freer than its most oppressed, richer than its poorest, wiser than its most ignorant.

Integration in the fields of education, housing, transportation and public accommodations will be of limited extent and duration so long as fundamental economic inequality along racial lines persist.

My perspective is never gonna change on that... We've got to do a much better job to take care of poor people, because you cannot put all the poor people in bad neighborhoods, send them to bad schools, and say, 'Good luck in life.' That's just not right.

We need to aim to get rid of food banks altogether, and replace charitable intervention with a fairer, more equal society.

We need to tackle extreme inequality because it is morally indefensible and socially corrosive - undermining our health, affecting our well-being, and undermining peaceful societies.

If it doesn't reach the last poor man, your constitution is wrong.

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.'

The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.

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

Income inequity has to be addressed.

American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.

We can't have it so there are skyscrapers side by side with slums.