It's incredibly important to understand history... when it comes to inequality. — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
Martin Luther King was a radical democrat, by which I mean someone who is a foe of wealth inequality. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
There is a lot of inequality in Colombia. We have to correct that. — Juan Manuel Santos Copy Share Image
Private property implies exclusivity, inequality, and difference. — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
“Continue your search for the truth but remember one thing--all things are possible.” — J.B. Lion Copy Share Image
The impact of punitive government measures is long-lasting and widens inequality and social discord. — Dawn Foster Copy Share Image
The entire social order ... is arrayed against a woman who wants to rise to a man's reputation. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Middle class was defined by having certain values and only a certain amount of money. But this new middle class seems to… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Amazons Jeff Bezos, Facebooks Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs did not start out wealthy, and actually added to income inequality,… — Foster Friess Copy Share Image
The term 'income inequality' is a bit misleading because it suggests in a somewhat pejorative way that the rich are getting richer… — Edward Lazear Copy Share Image
America's education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequity from one generation to the next. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Who would want the socialist Utopia? Especially if you were at all artistic - you want all those inequalities, because that's what… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
The promotion of human rights remains the most effective strategy for eliminating inequalities between countries and social groups, and for increasing security. — Pope Benedict XVI 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 could go into their reality any time I chose to, but they could never come into mine. This is what I… — Agnostic Zetetic Copy Share Image
As long as the problems of the poor are not radically resolved by rejecting the absolute autonomy of markets and financial speculation… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
America is a great country. It has many shortcomings, many social inequalities, and it's tragic that the problem of the blacks wasn't… — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
We know that communism is the right hypothesis. All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
Being attentive to inequality and not tone deaf to it. But offering prescriptions that are actually going to help folks in communities… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Why certain political classes want purposefully to keep Americans in a state of perpetual debt and uncertainty and why certain people don't… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
...these things become the norm: that some homeless people die of cold on the streets is not news. In contrast, a ten… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
We have to deal with issues like inequality, we have deal with issues of economic dislocation, we have to deal with peoples… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
And what is the Republican solution to these outrageous [racial] inequalities? There isn't one. And that's the point. Denying racism is the… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
After all, acknowledging unfairness then calls decent people forth to correct those injustices. And since most persons are at their core, decent… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
“It’s the process of being minimized, invalidated, silenced. It’s the process of being subjected to whatever someone else thinks I owe them.… — Agnostic Zetetic Copy Share Image
The 1970s were the height of social mobility. College was accessible. My grandfather was a poor immigrant who went to a public… — Lauren Greenfield Copy Share Image
Perhaps you know some well-off families who do not seem to suffer from their riches. They do not overeat themselves; they find… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“According to the economic story, you're free to enter and exit the world of markets as you please. As a buyer, you're… — F.S. Michaels Copy Share Image
Global inequality is such an abstract concept, simply because there is no global government. Telling people in rich countries who have had… — Branko Milanovic Copy Share Image
“Inequality in education starts early, and it starts at home. A study by the University of Kansas found that by the time… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
Today social justice represents one of the most serious challenges to the conscience of the world. The abyss between those who are… — Leonardo Boff Copy Share Image
I think the issue of income and wealth inequality is in fact a moral issue. — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Millions of people are falling out of the middle class into the ranks of the poor. — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“The porters only walked on carpet; the housekeepers walked everywhere else.” — Belinda Kelderhouse Copy Share Image
“Today, it seems as though inequality is implicitly tolerated,” — Pierre Rosanvallon Copy Share Image
“Privileged groups work for greater power consolidation through favoritism.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image