David Simon Quotes

There are two Americas. One which influences government and economic policy and the other which must live with the results.

Poor men's words have little weight.

No society is healthy when the gap between the rich and the poor is growing.

The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.

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.'

Economic chasm between people is something that is of interest to me. And something that I used to write about even as a child. It's something I've revisited a few times in my writings.

I think that there always have been and always will be at least two Americas - the poor America, the second America, tends to be in the shadows. Sometimes it's an America of people in a ghetto of color, sometimes it's an economic ghetto, but definitely there is a parallel America which people in the dominant America prefer to ignore if they can.

What I worry about is the lack of understanding in society around the world that there is a divide in the world between those who have and those who do not.

I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don't think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die.

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.

The way corporate media likes to portray America is as a homogenous whole that high-five's each other at the Super Bowl. But what we have is a grotesque disparity between the rich and poor that is only getting wider.

The economy is not governed with the bottom half in mind.

Inequality is on the rise.

There is another world out there, the existence of which the Court, I suspect, either chooses to ignore or fears to recognize. And so the cancer of poverty will continue to grow.

We are at great risk in our democracy for failing to understand the great depths of poverty.

... popular art has no chance of a healthy life, or, indeed, of a life at all, till we are on the way to fill up this terrible gulf between riches and poverty.

The rich have all the speech they want; the poor have lockjaw.

This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing.

There is growing inequality. The families of the all-powerful Ministers are getting richer. The poor and hard-working Belizeans are getting poorer.

Since 1980, Republican shredding of the social safety net has disproportionately hit women, particularly women of colour.

Nobody talks about the poor. Everybody talks about the middle class and just kinda want to ignore that the poor exist. And you cannot ignore that they exist if you want to help them.

What's interesting is that you've got a lot of overlap between supporters of different parties and different candidates who feel regardless of who's been in power, the rich have got richer and half the country's got poorer.

Britain is now living with the consequences of allowing an underclass to take root and fester.

We need to recognize that it is growing economic inequality that creates the conditions for hate to fester.

There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.