“Inevitably, people tell me that poor folks are lazy or unintelligent, that they are somehow deserving of their poverty. However, if you begin to look at the sociological literature on poverty, a more complex picture emerges. Poverty and unemployment are part and parcel of our economic order. Without them, capitalism would cease to function effectively, and in order to continue to function, the system itself must produce poverty and an army of underemployed or unemployed people.”

Part 3, Chapter 14, Dividing the Pie, p. 168
Economics For Everyone (2008)

Preface to the Second Edition, p. xxii
The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order - Second Edition - (2003)

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Quotes, Our Larger Tasks (2002)
Context: We must acknowledge that the utter poverty of hundreds of millions of people is not a matter for compassion only, but a threat in the long term to the growth and vigor of the global economic system. We must see it as a part of our charge to help create economic opportunity so that the gap between the richest and poorest does not grow ever wider.

Source: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian