America Quote by Cornel West

And if you look at the reality in the United States, where you have more than 40 million people below the poverty line and…

— Simon Mainwaring

“Poverty, we have said elsewhere, was the primary cause of wealth. It was poverty that created the first capitalist; because, before accumulating "surplus value,"…

— Pyotr Kropotkin

Capitalism - for the record - has lifted more people out of poverty than any other economic system in the world.

— Trish Regan

The working poor are the people suffering out subprime mortgages and fatal loans and more and more of our money - you know, capitalism…

— David Graeber

Capitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. With this system, a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience, and almost all…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I believe that capitalism is the one thing in this world that's brought people out of poverty.

— Rick Harrison

The capitalist system has lifted mankind out of mass poverty. It is this system that in the last century, in the last generation, even…

— Henry Hazlitt

One of the glaring failures of capitalism is the continuing widespread existence of poverty - often extreme poverty. Even in the advanced economies, many…

— Jim Stanford

Inevitably, people tell me that poor folks are lazy or unintelligent, that they are somehow deserving of their poverty. However, if you begin to…

— Bob Torres

In comparative terms, there's no poverty in America by a long shot. Heritage Foundation political scientist Robert Rector has worked up figures showing that…

— P. J. O'Rourke

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…

— Jay-Z

Capitalism is the system that has enabled greatness and made America the envy of the world.

— Trish Regan