In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out. Read Summary
The capitalist system is about taking from the Earth and from the other great commodity, labour. What's happening with this system is that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, and the only way out of it is supposed to be growth. But growth is debt. It's going to make the situation worse. Read Summary
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. Read Summary
In a just cause the weak will beat the strong. Read Summary
The poor man looks upon the law as an enemy, not as a friend. For him, the law is always taking something away. Read Summary
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. Read Summary
Why should Americans go on with their lives as normal, worrying about calories and hair loss, while other people are worrying about where they are going to get their next piece of bread? Read Summary
As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest. Read Summary
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich. Read Summary
Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change. Read Summary
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. Read Summary
The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs. Read Summary
If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food. Read Summary
Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts. Read Summary
The answer to the problem of inequality is for the people who are fortunate enough to either have been gifted or deserved more to do everything they can to make the communities around them as strong as they possibly can. Read Summary
There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair. Read Summary
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. Read Summary
If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you. Read Summary
When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die. Read Summary
I remember being in India one time where I saw people who were struggling to find food at the bottom of a trash can, and then I walked into my hotel and saw people arguing over how the quality of food at the buffet wasn't good enough. Read Summary