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Quotes about Economic inequality

I don't know who made the laws; But I know there ain't no law that you got to go hungry.
— Ernest Hemingway
Religion is the opium of the poor. I thought marijuana was the opium of the poor.
— Ernest Hemingway
Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.
— Nelson Mandela
One thing's sure and nothings' surer the rich get richer and the poor get -children In the meantime In between time.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
The middle class is teetering on the brink of collapse just as surely as AIG was in the fall of 2009 - only this time, it's not just one giant insurance company (and its banking counterparties) facing disaster, it's tens of millions of hardworking Americans who played by the rules.
— Arianna Huffington
All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
— William Henry Harrison
The Republicans are wrong in thinking that the rich create jobs. In reality, many of the richest Americans have been investing in efficiency innovations rather than to create jobs. And the Democrats are wrong, because growth won't happen if they distribute the wealth of the wealthy to everyone else.
— Clayton M. Christensen
There are rich people everywhere, and yet they don't contribute to the growth of their countries.
— Hillary Clinton
A majority, perhaps as many as 75 percent, of abortion clinics are in areas with high minority populations. Abortion apologists will say this is because they want to serve the poor. You don't serve the poor, however, by taking their money to terminate their children.
— Alveda King
The store-house cities are an ancient parallel to the great banks and insurance houses where surplus wealth is kept among us. That surplus wealth, produced by the cheap labor of peasants, must now be protected from the peasants by law and by military force.
— Walter Brueggemann