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
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
When you say fiscal responsibility, it seems to me that you really mean rich people keeping their money. — Alice Adams Copy Share Image
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
Man must choose whether to be rich in things or in the freedom to use them. — Ivan Illich 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
Economic inequality is systemic, and one of the most effective barriers is ignorance about how money works beyond the basics. — Stacey Abrams Copy Share Image
A Society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure and to another all the burdens of work condemns both… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
It has been convincingly demonstrated that countries where there are high rates of poverty, or high rates of economic inequality, are the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There is no question that we, as a country, need to deal with economic inequality across the country, and we need to… — Pramila Jayapal Copy Share Image
The balancing of the budget will not in itself place a teaspoonful of milk in a hungry baby's stomach, or remove the… — John L. Lewis Copy Share Image
Once, a union job at GM or AT&T was a bridge to success. Now, a nonunion Wal-Mart job is a bridge to… — Andy Stern Copy Share Image
We need to recognize that it is growing economic inequality that creates the conditions for hate to fester. — Jagmeet Singh Copy Share Image
Until we fix the deep-rooted problems of economic inequality, we cannot expect young people to experience the best childhood and adolescence. — Luciana Berger Copy Share Image
The coming change can only come through a revolution, because the possessing class will not allow a peaceful change to take place;… — Lucy Parsons Copy Share Image
“These differing emphases explain a lot—for example, the classical liberal view is that everyone has equal rights to happiness; rightists instead discount… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“An important ethical function of identity politics, in this context, is to highlight that obstacles to the self-development of individuals, and to… — Michael Kenny Copy Share Image
“… our nation's truly critical problems are built into the very structure of the economic and political system; they are not something… — Gar Alperovitz Copy Share Image
This happens today: if the investments in the banks fall slightly... a tragedy... what can be done? But if people die of… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Just as the commandment 'Thou shalt not kill' sets a clear limit in order to safeguard the value of human life, today… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The policies we debate and enact in Congress have a real impact on people across the country. Climate change, immigration, economic inequality… — Mike Quigley Copy Share Image
God, how patient are Thy poor! These corporations and masters of manipulation in finance heaping up great fortunes by a system of… — Anonymous 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
“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
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
“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
“On average, the real incomes of middle-class families have grown twice as fast under Democrats as they have under Republicans, while the… — Larry M. Bartels Copy Share Image
Unequal Democracy is the sort of book to which every political scientist should aspire--it is methodologically rigorous, conceptually serious, and above all,… — Robert D. Putnam Copy Share Image
“We need to start by asking one very simple question: where does wealth come from? The answer, as we’ve seen, is that… — Don Watkins Copy Share Image
“Fear, anxiety, the terror of mortality—it must be a drag being right-wing. But despite that, in a multinational study, rightists were happier… — Robert M. Sapolsky 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
“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
“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 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
“We must challenge corruption - only then we can be in a position to break the vicious cycle of economic inequality and… — Bhuwan Thapaliya Copy Share Image
Rejecting the notion that democracy and markets are the same, young people are calling for an end to the poverty, grotesque levels… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Economic inequality is less troubling if you live in a country where any child, no matter how humble his or her origins,… — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
A visionary leadership is required to harness rapid technological change for positive benefit rather than allowing to become disruptive and further exacerbate… — Piyush Goyal Copy Share Image
