A nation will not survive morally or economically when so few have so much and so many have so little. — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Every dollar that the boss did not work for, one of us worked for a dollar and didn't get it. — William C. Dudley Copy Share Image
What good does it do to sit at the counter when you cannot afford a hamburger? — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Man must choose whether to be rich in things or in the freedom to use them. — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
When you say fiscal responsibility, it seems to me that you really mean rich people keeping their money. — Alice Adams Copy Share Image
I will always have enough money to last the rest of my life...as long as I don't buy anything. — Ed Asner Copy Share Image
How can it be that it is not a news item when an elderly homeless person dies of exposure, but it is… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The tech-driven economy leads to a two-tier job market where workers are either critical or 'commodity.' This divisive 'winner-take-all' mentality hurts most… — Tom Steyer Copy Share Image
“The left is far more concerned with attacking America — its alleged racism, sexism, homophobia, Islamophobia and economic inequality — than with fighting Islamism.” — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
History and socio-economic inequality and all those things had, like, borne down upon my family and my community and really sort of… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
High levels of economic inequality lead to imbalances in political power, as those at the top use their economic weight to shape… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
Strike not for a few cents more an hour, because the price of living will be raised faster still, but strike for… — Lucy Parsons Copy Share Image
One of the saddest aspects for me about filming in South Africa was that the real inequalities are still very much in… — Naomie Harris Copy Share Image
Rejecting the notion that democracy and markets are the same, young people are calling for an end to the poverty, grotesque levels… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The present age handed over the workers, each alone and defenseless, to the unbridled greed of competitors... so that a very few… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
“Consequently, even many critics of economic inequality are hesitant to endorse the claim that inequality undermines growth. Paul Krugman, for instance, says… — Don Watkins Copy Share Image
Strong, responsible unions are essential to industrial fair play. Without them the labor bargain is wholly one-sided. The parties to the labor… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
Those on the downside of rising economic inequality generally do not want government policies that look like handouts. They typically do not… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
How many of us, myself included, have lost our bearings; we are no longer attentive to the world in which we live;… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Our cause is a common one. It is war between poverty and wealth. ... This moneyed power is fast eating up the… — William H. Sylvis Copy Share Image
“spread of neoliberal capital ist domination, a domination accompanied by extremes in economic inequality, ethnic hatred, and police vio lence, as well… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Modernizing our transportation infrastructure is a vital component of building our economy back stronger than ever, and implementing President Biden's bold vision… — Ned Lamont Copy Share Image
“On average, the real incomes of middle-class families have grown twice as fast under Democrats as they have under Republicans, while the… — Larry M. Bartels Copy Share Image
“The essence of economic inequality is borne out in a simple fact: there are 400 billionaires in the United States and 45… — Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Copy Share Image
Unequal Democracy is the sort of book to which every political scientist should aspire--it is methodologically rigorous, conceptually serious, and above all,… — Robert D. Putnam Copy Share Image
“We need to start by asking one very simple question: where does wealth come from? The answer, as we’ve seen, is that… — Don Watkins Copy Share Image
“Fear, anxiety, the terror of mortality—it must be a drag being right-wing. But despite that, in a multinational study, rightists were happier… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
The greatest country, the richest country, is not that which has the most capitalists, monopolists, immense grabbings, vast fortunes, with its sad,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Solving the population problem is not going to solve the problems of racism, of sexism, of religious intolerance, of war, of gross… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
“The issues the Panthers organized around fifty years ago are still with us. Our justice system is unjust. Police conduct in nonwhite… — Bobby Seale Copy Share Image
“Thomas Piketty, an economist at the Paris School of Economics, warned in his zeitgeist-shifting book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, that without… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“The corporate system is interconnected and now share a common invested interest, the ability to control through business, the people. It is… — Tom Althouse Copy Share Image
“In these downbeat times, we need as much hope and courage as we do vision and analysis; we must accent the best… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Economic inequality is less troubling if you live in a country where any child, no matter how humble his or her origins,… — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
“We must challenge corruption - only then we can be in a position to break the vicious cycle of economic inequality and… — Bhuwan Thapaliya Copy Share Image
Let us remember well, however, that whenever food is thrown out it is as if it were stolen from the table of… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
A visionary leadership is required to harness rapid technological change for positive benefit rather than allowing to become disruptive and further exacerbate… — Piyush Goyal Copy Share Image
There is no question that we, as a country, need to deal with economic inequality across the country, and we need to… — Pramila Jayapal Copy Share Image
