Marian Wright Edelman Quotes

You can tell an awful lot about a civilization by how it spends its money.

The distribution of wealth is just as important as its creation.

There are lots of issues more important than where billionaires donate their money.

Money is like manure. If it's concentrated in a big pile it really begins to stink, but if it's spread around a lot, it can do a lot of good.

There seems to be a happy concurrence of causes in human affairs, which checks the growth of trade and riches, and hinders them from being confined entirely to one people.

It is not the difficulty of the problem which we have; it is the fact that the rich people of this country -- and by rich people I mean the super-rich -- will not allow us to solve the problems, or rather the one little problem that is afflicting this country, because in order to cure all of our woes it is necessary to scale down the big fortunes, that we may scatter the wealth to be shared by all of the people.

There’s just too much money in the hands of too few.

…well-ordered republics have to keep the public rich and their citizens poor…

It's easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.

Credit expansion and money printing hasn't filtered much to ordinary people. It's boosted asset markets, real estate and stocks. So well-to-do-people have done very well.

1% of the population has all the money and the other 99% have nothing.

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.

When money is controlled by a few it gives that few an undue power and control over labor and the resources of the country. Labor will have its best return when the laborer can control its disposal.

Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.

Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money.

My principles are more important than the money or my title.

If we really just wanted to focus on making money, the first billion people who are already on Facebook have way more money than the next five or six billion people combined. It's not fair, but it's the way that it is. And, we just believe that everyone deserves to be connected, and on the Internet, so we're putting a lot of energy towards this.

We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much.

There's a wealth gap that is happening, and that is all over the world, you know? The rich are getting richer and holding a higher percentage of money or wealth that's out there.

If no man could become rich in Peru, no man could become poor.

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

I don't believe in sharing my money. If I go out and work my nuts off and make some money, I don't feel that I should have to share it with my community.

We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.

Money can't buy poverty.

There is a legitimate concern about wealth distribution in the United States, but the answer is not to scapegoat any individual who makes over $200,000 per year and to try to sell the fraud that the government can equitably take the money of those who have earned it and give it to those who haven't.