Maya Angelou Quotes

Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant of the health or viability of a society.

Welfare for the wealthy simply can no longer be afforded.

In the developed world, income inequality within the country is the most important determinant of health standards and life expectancy.

Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.

we're focusing too much energy on the symptom rather than the disease: Our real enemy is poverty, not welfare.

Why do we have 47 million people without health care? Because America has become about 'me'. What's happened to 'we' as a people? I believe in that and that resonates to most people.

Poverty is not inevitable. It is a human ill that we can fight if we decide to do so together.

The greatest difficulty with the world is not its ability to produce, but the unwillingness to share.

The world is richer than ever, and the gaps between rich and poor are wider.

The world does not lack the financial resources to feed, educate and clothe its inhabitants. Rather, it lacks leaders committed to addressing the problems of the impoverished.

The carrying power of a bridge is not the average strength of the pillars, but the strength of the weakest pillar. I have always believed that you do not measure the health of a society by GNP but by the condition of its worst off.

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.

It's no sin to make a critical study of Brazil's reality. A small percentage own land. Most people don't.

In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of 'the Haves' over the human rights of 'the Have Nots' is inevitably called into serious question.

One of the great political and economic challenges of our time is figuring out the balance between wealth that benefits society and wealth that distorts.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

When inequality gets too extreme, then it becomes useless for growth, and it can even become bad because it tends to lead to high perpetuation of inequality over time and low mobility.

We are privileged. There are poor people out there. We must to do something to make them privileged.

It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.

Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.

The Clinton administration cared a lot about the middle class and the poor. But it also cared a lot - too much, in retrospect - about the rich.

To understand the Left, one must understand that in its view the greatest evil is material inequality. The Left is more troubled by economic inequality than by evil as humanity has generally understood the term.

We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society.

It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.

So when the only domestic social policy is tax cuts that mostly benefit the wealthiest Americans, we say, 'Where is faith being put into action here?'