Wealth is used to entrench inequality, not to trickle down and solve it. — Winnie Byanyima Copy Share Image
Inequality is an enormously complicated thing that is both good and bad. — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
If we save the planet and have a society of inequality, we wouldn't have saved much. — James H. Cone Copy Share Image
While capitalist countries have more inequality - they also have more wealth overall. — Dan Bongino Copy Share Image
Happiness is often at its most intense when it is based on inequality. — James Salter Copy Share Image
Uncertainty and fears of social decline and exclusion have reached the middle class in many societies. — Jose Angel Gurria Copy Share Image
Do not banish reason for inequality; but let your reason serve to make the truth appear where it seems hid, and hide… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Couldn't we even argue that it is because men are unequal that they have that much more need to be brothers? — Charles Du Bos Copy Share Image
When inequality gets too extreme, then it becomes useless for growth, and it can even become bad because it tends to lead… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
The middle class in America is at a tipping point. It will not last another generation if we don't boldly change course… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
“HANG THE LAW AND FUCK THE RULES! Where is your love for others? Where is your compassion? All these warriors want is… — J.B. Lion Copy Share Image
The concern that I have is that, as wealth continues to concentrate in the hands of a few, economic inequality grows, and… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
Like an odorless gas, [inequality] pervades every corner of the United States and saps the strength of the country's democracy. But it… — George Packer Copy Share Image
“Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Trickle down economics is a fraud. Giving tax breaks to the rich and large corporations does not create jobs. It simply makes… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Nature eschews regular lines; she does not shape her lines by a common model. Not one of Eve's numerous progeny in all… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
A woman's work, from the time she gets up to the time she goes to bed, is as hard as a day… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
All of my life and particularly throughout of my public career, I have been talking about the feminization of poverty. And one… — Letitia James Copy Share Image
The state of inequality between individuals and between nations not only still exists; it is increasing. It still happens that side by… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Historically marginalized populations have already had less access to wealth and credit building opportunities, and the continued use of credit histories to… — Rashida Tlaib Copy Share Image
Most of the problem I see amongst friends and I've experienced amongst myself is when people haven't accommodated the inequality that they… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
One of the things I really worry about is that if you don't see middle class wage growth, if you don't see… — James Vance Copy Share Image
“Now, it is frequently asserted that, with women, the job does not come first. What (people cry) are women doing with this… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
As long as the problems of the poor are not radically resolved by rejecting the absolute autonomy of markets and financial speculation… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“There is good reason for pervasive middle-class angst. Financial insecurity has been written into the DNA of the New Economy. Not only… — Hedrick Smith Copy Share Image
“… as we submit to be dressed like dolls, we never can rise to the stations of duty and usefulness from which… — Sarah Grimké Copy Share Image
When you think of policies that are going to address inequality of wealth, you have to be very thoughtful about what economists… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
“03:11 And in the past few years, we've been able to propagate this lie even further via social media. You may have… — Stella Young Copy Share Image
All social inequalities which have ceased to be considered expedient, assume the character not of simple inexpediency, but of injustice, and appear… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“In some circumstances, a focus on extrinsic rewards (money) can actually diminish effort. Most (or at least many) teachers enter their profession… — Joseph E. Stiglitz Copy Share Image
Expanding the EITC can get us close to a universal basic minimum income. — Ro Khanna Copy Share Image
Conservatives cannot be absent from the debate on inequality and equality in the nation. — Pierre Poilievre Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as the middle class. It's absolutely vanishing. — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
“Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can turn it into a fact.” — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image