How many really great writers are there who are totally non-political? You can hear the French Revolution in the poetry of [Percy… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
It might be depressing, but it's also the truth that no one has the power, the money, or the resources to save… — Ashly Lorenzana Copy Share Image
the art of becoming 'rich', in the common sense, is not absolutely nor finally the art of accumulating much money for ourselves,… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The dominant economic approach of the last thirty years is now on its last legs. Letting the market rip and an indifference… — Frances O'Grady Copy Share Image
Was the earth made to preserve a few covetous, proud men to live at ease, and for them to bag and barn… — Gerrard Winstanley Copy Share Image
[M]en, though they know full well how much women are worth and how great the benefits we bring them, nonetheless seek to… — Moderata Fonte Copy Share Image
“We must insist on putting production at the heart of economic analysis. The inequality alarmists take the existence of progress and prosperity… — Don Watkins Copy Share Image
The middle class is teetering on the brink of collapse just as surely as AIG was in the fall of 2009 -… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
"But when you hear men talking," said Cornelia, "all they ever do is speak ill of women. 'And I don't quite know… — Moderata Fonte Copy Share Image
When the wilderness movement emerged, it emerged separate from the issue of social inequality and the economic problems of survival. It was… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Our outrage at inequality is primal. But primal emotions are not always noble ones. Of course, when I see a colleague receive… — Sendhil Mullainathan Copy Share Image
It's true that globalization, with all its fantastic improvements in the world and the technological progress linked to it, has increased inequality… — Antonio Guterres Copy Share Image
I believe that a lot of progress has been achieved to address gender inequality: We have moved from a time where women… — Zainab Salbi Copy Share Image
That's an important Obama accomplishment: he raised taxes back to Bill Clinton levels, and made a major dent in inequality doing so.… — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
Depression is a serious problem, but drugs are not the answer. In the long run, psychotherapy is both cheaper and more effective,… — Irving Kirsch Copy Share Image
The natural inequality of the two powers of population and of production in the earth, and that great law of our nature… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
“If we want truth and justice to rule our global village, there must be no hypocrisy. If there is no truth, then… — Suzy Kassem 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
Go back to - my first campaign for the United States Senate. I got a bunch of people now talking about inequality.… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Charity is no substitute for justice. If we never challenge a social order that allows some to accumulate wealth--even if they decide… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Only a well-organized movement of young people, educators, workers, parents, religious groups and other concerned citizens will be capable of changing the… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The Internet is the great equalizer.The technology which emanated from the Silicon Valley of California has more potential to ameliorate social inequality… — Benazir Bhutto Copy Share Image
“Boy, you are a hothead, Bane. Your rage makes you an exceptional warrior but quite a boring conversationalist. Good thing I did… — J.B. Lion Copy Share Image
In the U.S. when people like me started writing things about inequality, the economic journals had no classification for inequality. I couldn't… — Branko Milanovic Copy Share Image
Love is a great thing. It is not by chance that in all times and practically among all cultured peoples love in… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Scholars talk about the endless cycle of poverty and racism and classism and crime. But I don't see it as a cycle,… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I think the stress on income inequality is something that every American should take seriously, we have got to figure out how… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
While many Americans agree that 'the system is rigged' economically, few are aware of the ways in which racial inequality has been… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
I don't want our white working class sisters and brothers to feel as though their pain is not important because it is.… — Nina Turner 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
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