Quotes about Socioeconomic

I see one-third of a nation ill housed, ill clad, ill nourished...the test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those that have too little

Climate change pries further apart the haves and have-nots.

One of the reasons inequality gets so deep in this country is that everyone wants to be rich. That's the American ideal. Poor people don't like talking about poverty because even though they might live in the projects surrounded by other poor people and have, like, ten dollars in the bank they don't like to think of themselves as poor.

The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence.

It's all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.

And one day we must ask the question, Why are there forty million poor people in America? And when you begin to ask that question, you are raising questions about the economic system, about a broader distribution of wealth. When you ask that question, you begin to question the capitalistic economy.

Thomas Sowell asserts that by the late 1960's, black men from families with a library card, magazines and other literature in the home reached high-level occupations as often as white males of similar backgrounds.

You can't help the poor by being one of them.

When journalists and politicians speak of a dwindling middle class that's under economic assault and a poor community that's getting bigger, they're talking about Ferguson. Independent of the racial demographics and dynamics of Ferguson, Missouri, there's a 'Ferguson' near you.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

We need schools like Doon and Mayo for the poor.

On a macro level, four billion people on Earth make less than four dollars a day.