That which in England we call the middle class is in America virtually the nation. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
A lot of people, including me, are worried that inequality will lead to bad things. — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
“When inequality takes root, a garden of problems flourishes.” — Chintha Sai Bhargav Reddy Copy Share Image
Motherhood is a greater predictor of wage inequality than gender is. It's enormous. — Anne-Marie Slaughter Copy Share Image
The amount of suffering I've seen is beyond belief. The amount of inequality is beyond belief. — David Hogg Copy Share Image
Conservatives cannot be absent from the debate on inequality and equality in the nation. — Pierre Poilievre Copy Share Image
The law cannot save those who deny it but neither can the law serve any who do not use it. The history… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
“Some of the common occurrences of injustice are the presence of poverty, starvation, gender inequality, neglected widows and orphans and the injustice… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
This is an anxiety driven world - the whole world is driven by anxiety. It is anxiety about the aftermath of the… — Robert J. Shiller 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
An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never… — John F. Kennedy 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
There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning. — Warren Buffett 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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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
“03:11 And in the past few years, we've been able to propagate this lie even further via social media. You may have… — Stella Young Copy Share Image
When you think of policies that are going to address inequality of wealth, you have to be very thoughtful about what economists… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
All social inequalities which have ceased to be considered expedient, assume the character not of simple inexpediency, but of injustice, and appear… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“… as we submit to be dressed like dolls, we never can rise to the stations of duty and usefulness from which… — Sarah Grimké Copy Share Image
“In some circumstances, a focus on extrinsic rewards (money) can actually diminish effort. Most (or at least many) teachers enter their profession… — Joseph E. Stiglitz Copy Share Image
The basic issue of an American society which is fair, which is providing opportunity for all, is nowadays being replaced by the… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
“Basic income is not part of mainstream policy discussions today, but it has a surprisingly long history and came remarkably close to… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
Inequality of wealth and incomes is an essential feature of the market economy. It is the implement that makes the consumers supreme… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can turn it into a fact.” — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as the middle class. It's absolutely vanishing. — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
Uncertainty and fears of social decline and exclusion have reached the middle class in many societies. — Jose Angel Gurria Copy Share Image
Happiness is often at its most intense when it is based on inequality. — James Salter Copy Share Image
Expanding the EITC can get us close to a universal basic minimum income. — Ro Khanna Copy Share Image
