Shakira Quotes

Poverty and lack of education are ruining our planet.

In Colombia, education is sometimes considered a luxury, not a human right. And it's not a priority in the agendas of many leaders.

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

There is a lot of inequality in Colombia. We have to correct that.

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.

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.'

Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered.

Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged.

I think we've made tremendous progress on racism. We've even made progress on war. We've made almost no progress on poverty.

It is conflict overall that mires people in poverty. That is the first law of development.

Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.

It was a slow understanding that the lack of education in a country like Somalia creates these huge social problems.

The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.

Poverty is the parent of revolution.

The evil inequities and oppression of every kind which afflict millions of men and women today openly contradict Christ's Gospel and cannot leave the conscience of any Christian indifferent.

Why should there be such abject poverty?

The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.

It is futile to speak of liberty as long as economic slavery exists … poverty is slavery!

Yet today our splendid theory of government is confronted by a great peril. We have become blind to evils that menace us. We are confronted with glutted markets and idle labor. It is a condition that makes it possible for a few men to become landlords of a proud city like this while God's poor are packed in the slums. Such a condition is not only a menace to Republican institutions, but a travesty upon the gospel of Jesus Christ.

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

Inequality is bad for everyone, not just the middle class and the poor.

Inequality of income is bad for everyone, not just the poor and the middle class.

Resentment — that feeling when the modern promise of equality collides with massive disparities of power, education, status and property ownership.

No harm is done by the possession of Luxury by some people if only at the same time EVERYBODY HAS ENOUGH. The wrong incurred by the rich toward the poor lies solely in the fact that while they revel, the poor starve

The poor are little folks living on little lands who want what we already have.