“Well, we must all make do. Humans aren't born equal. Each of us must make the most of ourselves.” — Kevin Crossley-Holland Copy Share Image
The greatest problem America faces is the decline of middle class incomes. — Charles Schumer Copy Share Image
Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men? — Dorothy Thompson Copy Share Image
The extent of and continuing increase in inequality in the United States greatly concern me. — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
We've seen the weakest economic recovery since World War II, and massive levels of inequality and debt. — Kshama Sawant Copy Share Image
Feminism needs a political program because gender inequality has been fostered by political decisions. — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
American journalists tend to treat inequality as a fact of life. But it needn't be. — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
A certain inequality in regard to property still exists in a socialist society. But in a socialist society there is no unemployment,… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
All men, among themselves, are by nature equal. The inequality we now discern hath its spring from the civil law. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
We have to put reduction of health inequalities at the centre of our public health strategy and that will require action on… — Michael Marmot Copy Share Image
The ultimate goal of those who blame workers for Wall Street's economic crisis is to unravel the fabric of our common life… — Richard Trumka Copy Share Image
By defining the problem as 'hunger', the emergency food system is helping to direct our attention away from the more fundamental problem… — Janet Poppendieck Copy Share Image
We justify the inequalities by saying some people are just better and smarter than others and the strong should survive and the… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
“Americans were happy to celebrate their super-rich and, at least sometimes, worry about their poor. But putting those two conversations together and… — Chrystia Freeland Copy Share Image
The sense that materialism has gotten out of hand is magnified by the pressures facing middle-class American families. — Robert Wuthnow Copy Share Image
A moderate tax on robots, even a temporary tax that merely slows the adoption of disruptive technology, seems a natural component of… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
'Middle class' used to be synonymous with secure, with steady, with boring, because middle-class people were people who were pretty much safe… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
Sometimes the facts of the crime are so distracting - there's been some tragic murder or horrific incident, and people aren't required… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
Angus Deaton has written a wonderful book, The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality. . . . Deaton's book… — Michael Marmot Copy Share Image
Liberals talk about the 'income inequality' and the 'unfairness' and the disparity of the haves and the have-nots in New York City.… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Racial inequality has gotten worse in the last years because any time you have a moribund economy, the people who historically have… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
The income disparity is a huge issue. And I think that the only solution to this - there is no easy solution… — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
“Currently, the wealthy who have no pre-existing conditions can afford high-quality health care, while the poor and sick are relegated to hoping… — Seth Holmes Copy Share Image
This kind of gaping inequality gives lie to the promise that’s at the very heart of America: that this is a place… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Many ideas have struggled over the centuries to dominate the planet. Fascism. Communism. Democracy. Religion. But only one has achieved total supremacy.… — Jonathon Porritt Copy Share Image
The subjects of every state ought to contribute toward the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
They talk about class warfare -- the fact of the matter is there has been class warfare for the last thirty years.… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
The great religious ages were notable for their indifference to human rights... not only for acquiescence in poverty, inequality, exploitation and oppression,… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
In a world where inequality of ability is inevitable, anarchists do not sanction any attempt to produce equality by artificial or authoritarian… — Laurance Labadie Copy Share Image
“The issue of false consciousness is a genuinely difficult problem that has no definite solution. We should not approve of an unequal… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
“Demands for equality need to be as complicated as the inequalities they seek to address.” — Reni Eddo-Lodge Copy Share Image
Inequalities of wealth lead to a dispersion in wealth for all. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“If trickle-down economics worked, we would not have four food banks in Kensington and Chelsea.” — Emma Dent Coad Copy Share Image
The elephant needs a thousand times more food than the ant but that is not an indication of inequality. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
