Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" Inequality, climate change, and conflict are evicting millions from their homes. But these perils are being met with 'anti-answers' such as nationalism, closed borders, lies, and hatred. "
Winnie Byanyima
Conflict
Inequality
Hatred
Related Quotes:
" Democracy in Myanmar cannot be achieved with discrimination and gross violations of human rights. "
Winnie Byanyima
Democracy
Discrimination
Human Rights
" Governments should end the extreme concentration of wealth in order to end poverty. This means tackling tax dodging but also increasing taxes on wealth and high incomes to ensure a more level playing field and generate the billions of dollars needed to invest in healthcare, education, and job creation. "
Winnie Byanyima
Education
Wealth
Poverty
" Poverty is rooted in injustice. "
Winnie Byanyima
Poverty
Injustice
Rooted
" We need a world where people do not have to live in fear of the economic repercussions of getting sick or losing their home or job. Where every child gets to fulfil their potential. Where corporations pay their fair share of taxes and work for the good of the majority, not just their shareholders. "
Winnie Byanyima
Work
Live
Job
" The world belongs to the wealthy, and nowhere is this injustice more apparent than in the workplace. "
Winnie Byanyima
Injustice
World
Workplace
" I'm ready to do any kind of work, as long as it absorbs my passion for making a just world and equal world. "
Winnie Byanyima
Kind
World
Work
" It's happy and secure people who the are most creative. "
Winnie Byanyima
People
Creative
Happy
" Citizens need to know how their countries are being run so that they can hold governments and big business to account. "
Winnie Byanyima
Run
Hold
Big
" The move to a zero-carbon future is unstoppable. "
Winnie Byanyima
Future
Unstoppable
Move
" Rule of law, access to justice, and financial transparency happen by design, not accident. "
Winnie Byanyima
Justice
Design
Law
" Tax abuse is a scourge on our global community, but especially for Africa. "
Winnie Byanyima
Community
Global
Tax
" I grew up thinking the most decent job to do was to fight injustice. "
Winnie Byanyima
Injustice
Fight
Job
" People who are denied access to power are also denied the opportunity to make or influence decisions to live a better life out of poverty and claim their rights. "
Winnie Byanyima
Live
People
Opportunity
" African countries lose billions every year because of tax dodging by big corporations and wealthy individuals. They lose billions more from overly generous tax incentives in a misguided belief that this is the only way to attract foreign investment. "
Winnie Byanyima
Belief
Year
Lose
" To reduce gaps between men and women, we will need to change the way people think, behave, and relate to each other. "
Winnie Byanyima
Women
People
Need
" That a country has a strong civil society is, I believe, particularly necessary for good development. "
Winnie Byanyima
Believe
Country
Good
" The Paris Agreement threw people of the world a lifeline, and the United States played a vital role in getting us there, not least by working closely with China to clear the decks to a global deal. "
Winnie Byanyima
People
Paris
Agreement
" Developing countries can make great strides towards more progressive and effective taxation and spending through action within their own borders. But the damage caused by exemptions, loopholes, and tax havens requires action beyond national borders - it requires international action and cooperation. "
Winnie Byanyima
Cooperation
Own
Tax
" We don't have to accept an economy that doesn't work just because some people have got rich in the status quo. That is not democracy. "
Winnie Byanyima
Rich
Work
People
" If the civil society is not transparent, honest, and accountable, then you cannot be a champion of social justice. "
Winnie Byanyima
You
Society
Justice
" Ending extreme poverty is possible. "
Winnie Byanyima
Poverty
Extreme
Ending
" Fundamental is the need for governments to protect the space for citizens to claim their rights, organize, and express themselves. "
Winnie Byanyima
Rights
Space
Protect
" Extreme inequality is no temporary blip. It is hard-wired into our economies. "
Winnie Byanyima
Our
Inequality
Temporary
" Instead of presiding over an economic system that panders to big business and a wealthy elite, a more human economy must be established which meets the needs of African women and young people. "
Winnie Byanyima
People
Young
Women
" My own life values were shaped in great part by my mother, who instigated women's clubs in my village. Women were able to organize and stand together. What inspired me most about their work was the power it gave them to assert their rights and the rights of their daughters, be it education or property inheritance. "
Winnie Byanyima
Women
Work
Life
" Having an economy that works for the 99% is achievable. "
Winnie Byanyima
Economy
Having
Works
" Global governance needs recalibrating so it works in the public interest of all the world's citizens - not just for the few. "
Winnie Byanyima
Governance
Interest
World
" We have international organizations for health, trade, and football - even for coffee - but not tax. Why not? "
Winnie Byanyima
Why
Tax
Health
" When we talk about women's economic empowerment, we should be careful that we're not just giving women more to do. "
Winnie Byanyima
Giving
Empowerment
Women
" Crucially, African governments must ensure they prioritize the eradication of tax evasion and tax avoidance. "
Winnie Byanyima
Prioritize
Avoidance
Ensure