It's important to establish why racial inequality exists and then focus on the solution. But it needs facts over feelings. — Simon Jordan Copy Share Image
“Between the whores' world and God's world, like a river dividing two empires, stretches an intense smell of urine.” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Wealth has more and more increased, and at the same time gathered itself more and more into masses, strangely altering the old… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Middle-class-led reform movements, from the Progressive Era to the War on Poverty, have been marred by an elitist distance from the would-be… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
We must continue to address the fact that working people and communities already suffering the most from inequality were hit the hardest… — Marty Walsh Copy Share Image
The Princeton economist Alan Krueger has demonstrated that societies with higher levels of income inequality are societies with lower levels of social… — George Packer Copy Share Image
The best example of all, to me, that our problems are both personal and cultural and political and social is the whole… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Rising inequality can create a more highly leveraged economy, and it can then make the economy vulnerable to a crash like 2008. — Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell Copy Share Image
There's still a massive inequality between the genders. If you look at the trajectory of a male actor's career, there's no hesitation… — Juliet Stevenson Copy Share Image
As we contemplate a world which is still choosing to deploy technological innovation in a way that deepens inequality and divisions within… — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
I certainly think so, and I argue so, and I give talks on that. Are there risks by putting people together? Absolutely.… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
“You see the mistakes of one system—the surveillance—and the mistakes of the other—the inequality—but there’s nothing you could have done in the… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding; and those who are conscious of their inferiority have the modesty not to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Race is the idea that a human being is more superior than another human being, race in society grants illusional rights to… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
“There is no justice, and I want you to hear this clearly, when the top one-tenth of 1 percent—not 1 percent, the… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
The disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons… — Adam Smith 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
There may be countries [where] there's no gender inequality in schooling, even in higher education, but [where there is] gender inequality in… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
The U.S. and, to a certain extent, countries in Europe as well, have experienced growing inequality within their population for decades -… — Nicholas Bloom Copy Share Image
It is eminently possible to have a market-based economy that requires no such brutality and demands no such ideological purity. A free… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
“Western capitalist society, and especially my own American society, is one characterized by great inequalities. In any such society, by the nature… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Needless to say, under either system [socialism or fascism], the inequalities of income and standard of living are greater than anything possible… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“In no country does the average income give the right picture of how people live but in a country with higher inequality… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
“I once heard Jerry Yang, the cofounder of Yahoo!, quote a senior Chinese government official as saying, "Where people have hope, you… — Thomas L. Friedman Copy Share Image
I think that on the Democratic side, Bernie Sanders talks about income inequality and poverty alleviation, and those issues are so important. — Kerry Kennedy Copy Share Image
Today in many places we hear a call for greater security. But until exclusion and inequality in society and between peoples is… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these… — Plato Copy Share Image
I've been in revolt for years against ignominy, against injustice, against inequality, against immorality, against the exploitation of human beings. — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
Government sponsors untold waste, criminality and inequality in every sphere of life it touches, giving little or nothing in return. — Doug Casey Copy Share Image
By expediting the use of the 1619 Project, our schools are coming perilously close to cementing existing inequality, rather than giving kids… — Tommy Tuberville Copy Share Image
The devastation of neoliberalism is so multi-fold, whether it's violence against women or desperate economic inequality or the destruction of the planet. — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
“In a capitalist society there are always inequalities of class and wealth. People who inherit money and property will always see themselves… — Sally Wentworth Copy Share Image
The historical weight of gender inequality has tended to concentrate women in lower-paid jobs with fewer benefits and at the same time… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
“Women are also property in our bible; adultery is a property crime in the Old Testament, not a sex crime.” — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Inequality reigns in horrifying ways, and not everyone can even read, but the world of media and advertising withholds very little from… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
What is the upside of inequality? I would say that it's a deep pool of properly trained, highly motivated talent that is… — Edward Conard Copy Share Image
Homemakers work longer and harder than any other class of worker in the United States for less pay, and are the most… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I remember becoming aware of women's issues and inequality. It became glaringly clear to me when I was living in America that… — Julie Christie Copy Share Image
The truth is that after several decades of neoliberalism, the rich are becoming increasingly richer while the poor are both more numerous… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
Some degree of inequality in income and wealth, of course, would occur even with completely equal opportunity because variations in effort, skill,… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image