Jack Monroe Quotes

We’ve taken care not to penalize the wealthy but we have to redistribute some income …It is through reform that we can obtain fairness in the modern world…A reformed welfare state is the only way to obtain social justice.

Economic inequality is not about food stamps and homeless shelters. It is about being a devotee of social justice and equality.

Worrying about the poor is one thing. To contend that equality is necessary for growth is an altogether different and more radical idea.

Instead of helping a lucky few to escape disadvantage, a Labour government will aim to abolish poverty completely and create a more equal society, raising the living standards and well-being of all.

Income inequity has to be addressed.

I do not believe in widening the income gap between rich and poor, and my life's work in the inner city of Detroit demonstrates that far more than any sound bite.

And my approach has always been to stand up and speak out on behalf of the economic rights of people.

As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.

It's not my fault that there is this gap between rich and poor, it is the fault of governments. I want a different world. One where I don't wake up thinking I'm so lucky to be able to feed my daughter.

The social order we have built recognizes no exploitation of man by man. In our country there are no rich people to live at the expense of the workers and peasants. Just as there are no poor people living on the charity of others.

Fair Shares for All, is Labour's Call

There never can be equality of rewards or possessions so long as the human plan contains varied talents and differing degrees of industry and thrift, but ours ought to be a country free from the great blotches of distressed poverty.

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

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

One thing that is clearly not maximized by free markets is equality. I am talking not about that pale substitute for equality known as equality of opportunity but about equality itself.

Yes, climate change is an existential threat, but there's also kind of this existential issue of why is it that as our society is progressing... things seem to be regressing and getting worse for a large number of people? Why is that happening? How do we fix that?

My goal is to eradicate poverty. I think we can't have equality until we eradicate poverty.

I fall into the camp that income inequality is the biggest problem we face.

My politics are food-related - food banks, the living wage, zero hour contracts - and my food is political.

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

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 consider the homeless just as important as the richest of the rich.

When thousands of men and women work full time but need food stamps to put food on their tables, when they can't get health benefits, when they can't get paid sick days, then we must do whatever we can to stand up for them.

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.'

I feel sympathy for the working class lad. I've always championed about ticket prices and try to equate that to people's salaries.