“There can be no peace as long as there is grinding poverty, social injustice, inequality, oppression, environmental degradation, and as long as the weak and small continue to be trodden by the mighty and powerful.”
Tenzin Gyatso The 14th Dalai Lama
“There is a deep history of injustice that has led to poverty and inequality, and it will not be overcome instantly, ... But the president from day one has been acting boldly to achieve real results for all Americans.”
Scott McClellan
“He will touch on how there has been a long history of injustice that has led to poverty and inequality. It's not something we're going to overcome instantly.”
“Because Katrina put it out there, no one can play the pretend game anymore that there isn't poverty and inequality in this country. The Millions More Movement -- Katrina gives it added significance.”
Marc Morial
“The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.”
Aristotle
“People differ in capacity, skill, health, strength; and unequal fortune is a necessary result of unequal condition. Such inequality is far from being disadvantageous either to individuals or to the community.”
Leo XIII
“An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects.”
Martin Luther
