The law cannot save those who deny it but neither can the law serve any who do not use it. The history… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
This is an anxiety driven world - the whole world is driven by anxiety. It is anxiety about the aftermath of the… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
“We were like captive animals that had lost the will to fight. We even went so far as to defend the very… — Manal al-Sharif Copy Share Image
No sustainable development, environmental harmony or lasting security will happen if we are unable to eradicate hunger and extreme inequality — Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Copy Share Image
A tight-money policy reinforces inequality in two ways. Its high interest rates disproportionately reward the rich, and the resulting unemployment disproportionately punishes… — Linda McQuaig Copy Share Image
I've been talking about things like reversing the rise of inequality and strengthening social mobility,since before it was cool. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We need to see the FLSA and the minimum wage as part of a larger struggle to cut poverty and to address… — Tom Perez Copy Share Image
College was a wonderful time to really explore my interests. I ended up writing my senior thesis about gender inequality in the… — Lauren Bush Copy Share Image
There are some people who say that theyre concerned only with poverty but not inequality. But I dont think that is a… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
The country that's been most successful at that is Norway. The more typical countries are those in the Middle East where a… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
I see the sharp inequality between how Haitian and Cuban refugees are treated in Florida. Both groups come here because their lives… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
“And after generations of redistributive progressive income and inheritance taxes, the economic elite was losing its lead. Income in America during the… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“As to any sense of inequality, or youthfulness, or other difficulty in our way, little Em'ly and I had no such trouble,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Real income inequality is what we used to call striving and working hard to get ahead. Striving, educating ourselves, getting up and… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
We still live in a world of such gross injustice and inequality, that only privileged people like ourselves can afford to think… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
First of all, [Buckminster Fuller's] identification of the problems that are all that much more pertinent, all that much more pressing in… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
Inequality may linger in the world of material things, but great music, great literature, great art and the wonders of science are,… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If you're just the person with power, exercising that power fearfully and angrily, you're going to be an operative of injustice and… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
“If human equality is to be for ever averted — if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
A multi-tier social protection system must be based on a modest basic income so as to enable the precariat to build lives… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
If we will not endure a king as a political power, we should not endure a king over the production, transportation, and… — John Sherman Copy Share Image
I feel disheartened when I see stereotypes, because it's untrue and unfair. It just raises the level of inequality. — Sonoya Mizuno Copy Share Image
With a Socialist government, there will not be a national surplus whilst there continues to be inequality. — Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero Copy Share Image
No matter how we name and dissect inequality, we must keep explaining the larger downside of such concentrated extreme wealth. — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
“There are places where you can live only when you are healthy, in those places when you fall ill it's the end… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
That's part of American greatness, is discrimination. Yes, sir. Inequality, I think, breeds freedom and gives a man opportunity. — Lester Maddox Copy Share Image
One of the most important of all the causes of great inequality of income is the inheritance of a great fortune by… — Hugh Dalton Copy Share Image
If you really want to end income inequality, I've got the way to fix it. People who don't work shouldn't get any… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
It's astounding to me that in a country where there is an ever-growing divide between rich and poor, that people won't accept… — Bill Pullman Copy Share Image
“For instance, in Sweden, Finland, and Germany, income inequality has actually grown more quickly over the past twenty to thirty years than… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
A universal basic income would be the best way to give everyone the opportunity to do more unpaid but incredibly important work,… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
“Inequality is everywhere at the bottom of faction, for in general faction arises from men's striving for what is equal.” — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I don't really care much about what the top one per cent earn. The gap we ought to care about in wealth… — Steve Hilton Copy Share Image
“We certainly face, as did the ancient Greeks, the problem of oligarchy—ever more threatening as globalization increases differences in wealth.” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“Inequality is not necessarily bad in itself: the key question is to decide whether it is justified, whether there are reasons for… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
An important factor influencing intergenerational mobility and trends in inequality over time is economic opportunity. — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
“It’s the underlying inequality. Someone is always the one who loves more, and it eventually drives the other—the less loving one—away. Just… — Diana Peterfreund Copy Share Image
Inequality is on the rise in Canada and those at the top have no idea what life is like for most Canadian… — Jagmeet Singh Copy Share Image
Lynching is an important aspect of racial history and racial inequality in America, because it was visible, it was so public, it… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
I believe it is wrong, in a country of such wealth and prosperity, to have 36 million Americans living in poverty. — John Edward Copy Share Image