I will always have enough money to last the rest of my life...as long as I don't buy anything. — Ed Asner Copy Share Image
When you say fiscal responsibility, it seems to me that you really mean rich people keeping their money. — Alice Adams Copy Share Image
What good does it do to sit at the counter when you cannot afford a hamburger? — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Man must choose whether to be rich in things or in the freedom to use them. — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
Every dollar that the boss did not work for, one of us worked for a dollar and didn't get it. — William C. Dudley Copy Share Image
A nation will not survive morally or economically when so few have so much and so many have so little. — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
We want a better America, an America that will give its citizens, first of all, a higher and higher standard of living… — Sidney Hillman 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
People who have to fight for their living and are not afraid to die for it are higher persons than those who,… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Protecting space for civil society and citizenry is particularly critical in a world marked by rising political and economic inequality. — Winnie Byanyima 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 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
There is a correlation between economic inequality and personal violence. The explanation for the correlation isn't completely clear; there are a number… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I think the greedy corporate owners have to be confronted with the fact that they are ignoring their most powerful resource -… — John Sweeney Copy Share Image
The perennial conviction that those who work hard and play by the rules will be rewarded with a more comfortable present and… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
Think of a public library, worth more for those who cannot afford numerous books. Think of a public waterway or fishing ground.… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
“The essence of economic inequality is borne out in a simple fact: there are 400 billionaires in the United States and 45… — Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Copy Share Image
“The economic consequences of these policies have been the same just about everywhere, and exactly what one would expect: a massive increase… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The union miner cannot agree to the acceptance of a wage principle which will permit his annual earnings and his living standards… — John L. Lewis Copy Share Image
Workers of the world awaken. Break your chains, demand your rights. All the wealth you make is taken, by exploiting parasites. Shall… — Joe Hill 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 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
“After a series of campaign scandals involving secret donations from the newly rich industrial barons in the late nineteenth and early twentieth… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“Today, more and more of the world is following our lead, with the result that billions around the globe have been liberated… — Don Watkins Copy Share Image
“Whatever the "Christian conservatives" in America say, there is no one set of rightful opinions that follow on automatically from your belief.… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
“In addition to its elements of adolescent titillation, the world of JA2 contains racism, sexism, xenophobia, government-sponsored torture, child labor, and extreme… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Conant was concerned that the “particular functions” that might be assigned to young people would be dictated by the economic conditions of… — Michael S. Roth Copy Share Image
“Some economic inequality critics go further and contend that there comes a point at which inequality undermines progress—and, by and large, they… — Don Watkins Copy Share Image
“The issues the Panthers organized around fifty years ago are still with us. Our justice system is unjust. Police conduct in nonwhite… — Bobby Seale Copy Share Image
Solving the population problem is not going to solve the problems of racism, of sexism, of religious intolerance, of war, of gross… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
“In these downbeat times, we need as much hope and courage as we do vision and analysis; we must accent the best… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“The corporate system is interconnected and now share a common invested interest, the ability to control through business, the people. It is… — Tom Althouse Copy Share Image
“Thomas Piketty, an economist at the Paris School of Economics, warned in his zeitgeist-shifting book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, that without… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
The benefits of feminism have been unequally distributed, because the move toward gender equality and gender neutrality has been countered to a… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
What is economics? A science invented by the upper class in order to acquire the fruits of the labor of the underclass — August Strindberg 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
Imagine a progressive president fighting to fix the insane economic inequality in the country or to end the senseless drug war or,… — Cenk Uygur Copy Share Image
Unions have long championed measures to reduce social and economic inequality, and efforts to weaken the labor movement at both the state… — Mike Quigley Copy Share Image
