Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Quotes

Bolivia is not yet a country of equals.

We need radical, transformative solutions to address the inequality that is blighting millions of people's lives.

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.

We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity.

Income inequality is troubling because, among other things, it means that many people in our society don't have the opportunities to advance themselves.

We live in a world in which we're seeing an increasing gap between the haves and the have-nots.

In America, the dreamers, the disabled and the disadvantaged are not left to defend themselves, alone in their struggles.

Allow not the abject to rule over and dominate them who are noble and worthy of honour, and suffer not the high-minded to be at the mercy of the contemptible and worthless, for this is what We observed upon Our arrival in the City (Constantinople), and to it We bear witness. We found among its inhabitants some who were possessed of an affluent fortune and lived in the midst of excessive riches, whilst others were in dire want and abject poverty. This ill beseemeth thy sovereignty, and is unworthy of thy rank…. strive thou to rule with equity among men

In politics heaven lies at the feet of the poor masses.

Excessive economic and social disparity between individuals and peoples of the one human race is a source of scandal and militates against social justice, equity, human dignity, as well as social and international peace.

Compassion is not a sloppy sentimental feeling for people ... it is an absolutely practical belief that regardless of a person's background, ability or ability to pay, he should be provided with the best that society has to offer.

Poor men's words have little weight.

Inequality is bad for everyone, not just the middle class and the poor.

Inequality of income is bad for everyone, not just the poor and the middle class.

There are so many people and organisations that work quietly and diligently for the poor and the disadvantaged. We should also work with unity and purpose to ensure that the benefits of government policies reach all sections of society.

We remain a highly unequal society in which poverty and prosperity are still defined by race as well as gender.

We must formulate policies to allow everyone to have the same opportunities in life and fix our broken society too.

Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.

There is a common tendency to ignore the poor or to develop some rationalisation for the good fortune of the fortunate.

We must begin by acknowledging that there is a complete absence of two things in Indian Society. One of these is equality. On the social plane we have an India based on the principles of graded inequality, which means elevation for some and degradation for others. On the economic plane we have a society in which there are some who have immense wealth as against many who live in abject poverty.

We all have a large stake in preserving our democracy, but I maintain that those without power in our society, the black, the brown, the poor of all colors, have the largest stake not because we have the most to lose, but because we have worked the hardest, and given the most, for what we have achieved.

Problems of persistent poverty cannot be addressed unless they are acknowledged.

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the greater part of the members are poor and miserable. It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, clothe and lodge the whole body of the people, should have such a share of the produce of their own labor as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed and lodged.

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.

Income inequality is the central problem all the way across the world.