The literature associating inequality with social instability and poor health outcomes is pretty convincing.

Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it’s a subject below their social standing.

Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We’re standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.

It is pretty ironic that the so-called ‚least advanced‘ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us, while the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

George Bush doesn’t care about black people.

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.

If you’re low-income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than you do of getting a four-year degree. And that doesn’t seem entirely fair.

Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won’t make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa – and it’s about getting a balance.

The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.

Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment.

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.

Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

Say there’s a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter – for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that’s saying is that he’s living a fantasy life of rebellion.

Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing.

Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing… you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn’t affect two-thirds of the people of the world.

Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don’t need to imagine it. It’s called the United States of America.

It’s difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn’t available.

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.

Unfortunately, in a recession, the people who suffer the most aren’t the rich, but the wanna-be rich and the poor.

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

There is plenty of building material and more than enough manpower to make a decent home for every Cuban. But if we continue to wait for the golden calf, a thousand years will have gone by, and the problem will remain the same.

I’ve been very lucky, and therefore I owe it to try and reduce the inequity in the world. And that’s kind of a religious belief. I mean, it’s at least a moral belief.

Palestinians have no wealth or power.

What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?

The biggest and most deadly ‚tax‘ rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefits – food stamps, housing subsidies and the like – if their income goes up.

Poverty is the mother of crime.

The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.

The main message of Climate Revolution is that climate change is caused by the rotten financial system we’ve got, designed to create poverty and rip off any profits for a small amount of rich people. Meanwhile, it destroys the earth.

Racism is real in this country.

Capitalism has proven to be the only system that works, but the problem with capitalism is that extreme wealth ends up in the hands of a few people.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

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

It’s very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence.

An important priority for me is a business must get their own house in order. Be or become an agent of positive change in your own enterprise and adopt responsible practices to eliminate the risks that often lie at the root of inequality and poverty.

What we call Man’s power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

If you’re totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

The trouble ain’t that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain’t distributed right.

If you are poor, you are not likely to live long.

Anybody who has been discriminated against, who comes from a group that’s been discriminated against, knows what it’s like.

The poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different, diverse reasons, again seems to escape some people.

What you’re seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they’re directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.

There’s no doubt that inequality destabilizes societies. I think the social science evidence on that front is crystal clear.

Injustice in the end produces independence.

When the rich wage war, it’s the poor who die.

Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.

In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute – a white skin.

I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.

Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems.

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.

Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich.

The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.