Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

The global economy should not be supported by wage earners. They have to be able to build a future like any other human being.

The only distribution of wealth which is the product of labor, which will be honest, will come through a more equal distribution of the productive capacity of men.

You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

In a morally adjusted economy ... the rich should not get richer if the poor get poorer.

I believe in capitalism but in fair capitalism.

It is unjust to let any starve, when we think it just to limit the wages of the poor, so as they can lay up nothing against the time of their impotency and want of work.

Unless you’re at the very top, you need a more equitable economy.

There is no question that we, as a country, need to deal with economic inequality across the country, and we need to make sure we have good-paying jobs for everyone.

This [minimum wage] legislation, passed by the 81st Congress at its first session, is an important addition to the laws we live by. It is a measure dictated by social justice. It adds to our economic strength. It is founded on the belief that full human dignity requires at least a minimum level of economic sufficiency and security.

If you take from the most wealthy and give to the least wealthy, it's good. It tries to balance out.

As more and more people demand fair pay, the Government and big corporations are going to have to take notice.

Having an economy that works for the 99% is achievable.

I don't subscribe to the view that people who are better off don't want to live in a more equal society.

The minimum wage should be a living wage.

I will stand with the working-class citizens over all else.

I was on the committee that helped raise the minimum wage here in Seattle. I introduced a statewide bill to raise the minimum wage in Washington state my first year in the state senate, and I really believe that raising the federal minimum wage, while not the answer to everything, addresses a lot of the issues at the very bottom.

I'm more concerned about maximum wages, not minimum wages.

I don't think equality is intrinsically valuable, meaning in and of itself. I'm not against inequality... if Bill Gates gets another hundred million dollars, it's no skin off my nose.

I decided to run for Congress to get and keep people in the middle class.

Our minimum wage is too low. So we need to raise it.

The Curse of poverty has no justification in our age...The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.

Through periodic increases over the next three decades under Democratic and Republican administrations alike, the nation achieved one of the fundamental goals of a just society, which is that no one who works for a living should have to live in poverty.

Workers are not being exploited. But if their share of growth doesn't increase, this could be a potential cause of social tension worldwide.

A too great disproportion among the citizens weakens any state. Every person, if possible, ought to enjoy the fruits of his labour, in a full possession of all the necessities, and many of the conveniences of life. No one can doubt, but such an equality is most suitable to human nature, and diminishes much less from the happiness of the rich than it adds to that of the poor.

I am going to attack income inequality and I think I have a pretty good plan to do so. I don't just tell you what I'm against. I tell you what I'm for and how I would do it.