Some of the anti-trade sentiment is the result of rising wealth inequality and stagnating real wages. — Arancha Gonzalez Copy Share Image
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
That divide between the rich and poor is so crazy, because even white kids are suffering now. — M.I.A Copy Share Image
The middle income families in America have been crushed over the last four years, — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
“When inequality takes root, a garden of problems flourishes.” — Chintha Sai Bhargav Reddy Copy Share Image
Unions did in fact build the middle class. And here's what that did. That built the United States of America as we… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
Wishy-washy equivocations - and not just on abortion, but on immigration, on civil rights, on income inequality - weaken all of us. — Laura Moser Copy Share Image
“Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
If someone thinks of something, some new innovation that benefits us all, and the market works properly, they get richly rewarded for… — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
The truth is the middle class is not only stagnant but it is my fear that, without sustained and focused action, it… — Jan Schakowsky Copy Share Image
Massive inequality, we have learned, isn't the best way to run an economy after all. And when you think about it, it's… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
There is a huge number of people outside our borders who would love to come here. In fact, many of them come… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the glorious inequality of talent, of genius. — Felix Schelling Copy Share Image
More money is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on suicide. I… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
A person of good intelligence and of sensitivity cannot exist in this society very long without having some anger about the inequality… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
For 40 years, the American middle class has been disappearing. Millions of people are working longer hours for lower wages despite a… — Lindsey Graham Copy Share Image
The rule of law does not do away with the unequal distribution of wealth and power, but reinforces that inequality with the… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“There is no economic failure so terrible in its import as that of a country possessing a surplus of every necessity of… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
We want to end gender inequality, and to do this, we need everyone involved...We want to try to galvanize as many men… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
“If people lived to be a thousand years old, there’d be extreme inequality, based not on class like now, but on genetics.… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
The democratic ideal has always been related to a moderate level of inequality. I think one big reason why electoral democracy flourished… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
“Stalin formulated the economic aims of socialism as: “The securing of the maximum satisfaction of the constantly rising material and cultural requirements… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
"Free markets" is a very general term. There are all sorts of problems that will emerge. Free markets work best when the… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“There is no deception on the part of the woman, where a man bewilders himself: if he deludes his own wits, I… — John Gower Copy Share Image
I think, from a progressive point of view, to have a Democratic Congress and a Democratic White House, and to have spent… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
“I don't want them to think that we dress like savages,' she replied, with a scorn that Pocahontas might have resented; and… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“One of the reasons inequality gets so deep in this country is that everyone wants to be rich. That's the American ideal.… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
“It was a fact generally acknowledged by all but the most contumacious spirits at the beginning of the seventeenth century that woman… — Antonia Fraser Copy Share Image
“The great hatred of capitalism in the hearts of the oppressed, ancient and modern, I think, stems not merely from the ensuing… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
That which in England we call the middle class is in America virtually the nation. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
A lot of people, including me, are worried that inequality will lead to bad things. — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
Motherhood is a greater predictor of wage inequality than gender is. It's enormous. — Anne-Marie Slaughter Copy Share Image
The amount of suffering I've seen is beyond belief. The amount of inequality is beyond belief. — David Hogg Copy Share Image
Inequality is pervasive but invisible. It's hard to see. You need a sort of tool to make it visible. — Hito Steyerl Copy Share Image
Probably the most extreme form of inequality is between people who are alive and people who are dead. — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image