Poverty Gap Quotes

There are levels of poverty in South Africa that are totally unacceptable.

Africa is rich, and why are we poor then if our continent is rich. It is not right.

Nobody likes being around poor people, especially poor people.

I try to deal with the poverty gap - to do policies for all of us rather than only for the wealthy.

Los Angeles cannot permanently exist as two cities—one amazingly prosperous, the other increasingly poorer in substance and in hope.... This city, like the nation, is living with an increasing polarization of incomes. A rising tide no longer lifts all boats.

God must love the rich or he wouldn't divide so much among so few of them.

The poor are the Negroes of Europe.

Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.

I think the gap between rich and poor is an extremely dangerous phenomenon and needs the immediate attention of the state.

I grew up pretty poor - not poor compared with people in India or Africa who are really poor, but poor enough so that the worry about money really cast a pall over your life a lot of the time.

The differences in income between the poor world and the rich world are so great that people have to be interested.

All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.

It seems to me that the earth belongs to God who made it and entrusted it to men as a perpetual home. But it cannot have been part of His plan that some men should be ill with overfeeding and that others should die of starvation. No matter what anyone can say they cannot prevent me from feeling sad and angry when I see a beggar crying at a rich man's door.

We know that Brexit would make our poorest communities poorer still. That it would make the powerless even less able to effect change.

There is a considerable polarization taking place here, increasing the gap between rich and poor. It's most dramatic in Third World countries, of course, but in the rich countries it's also very noticeable.

We live in a country of grotesque inequalities.

I think that there always have been and always will be at least two Americas - the poor America, the second America, tends to be in the shadows. Sometimes it's an America of people in a ghetto of color, sometimes it's an economic ghetto, but definitely there is a parallel America which people in the dominant America prefer to ignore if they can.

We've got the budget deficit and we've got the human deficit.

The poorest people are so incredibly poor, and the rich are so incredibly rich on the other side. That is a kind of fascination.

One of the saddest aspects for me about filming in South Africa was that the real inequalities are still very much in place - and those are economic inequalities.

... popular art has no chance of a healthy life, or, indeed, of a life at all, till we are on the way to fill up this terrible gulf between riches and poverty.

When we say 'less fortunate,' we generally mean the poor rather than the disabled, who actually are less fortunate. In truth, the poor are generally 'less fortunate' only in terms of genetics. They are certainly not less fortunate in the amount of help they receive.

Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.

There's a very committed effort to convert the US into something resembling a Third World society, where a few people have enormous wealth and a lot of others have no security.

Even though the Arab countries have both strategic and invaluable subterranean riches, most of them are poor.