Inequality Quotes · Page 22

Inequality was written into the creation of the American Republic when our Founding Fathers denied voting rights to women.

— Stephanie Coontz

“I am not posing these questions only to the world at large. I query us who own Christ as our life. Can…

— Richard J. Foster

In a really equal democracy, every or any section would be represented, not disproportionately, but proportionately. ... Unless they are, there is…

— John Stuart Mill

This success permits us to hope that after thirty or forty years of observation on the new Planet [Neptune], we may employ…

— Urbain Le Verrier

I see the sharp inequality between how Haitian and Cuban refugees are treated in Florida. Both groups come here because their lives…

— Edwidge Danticat

After all, acknowledging unfairness then calls decent people forth to correct those injustices. And since most persons are at their core, decent…

— Tim Wise

Inequality saps the economy by draining the buying power of Americans whose incomes have stagnated, forcing them to rely on debt to…

— George Packer

I am conscious that an equal division of property is impracticable, but the consequences of this enormous inequality producing so much misery…

— Thomas Jefferson

Women speak an average 18,000 more words a day than men do. And there may be a genetic reason, it may be…

— Rush Limbaugh

Charity is no substitute for justice. If we never challenge a social order that allows some to accumulate wealth--even if they decide…

— Michael Eric Dyson

Like an odorless gas, [inequality] pervades every corner of the United States and saps the strength of the country's democracy. But it…

— George Packer

Rising inequality can create a more highly leveraged economy, and it can then make the economy vulnerable to a crash like 2008.

— Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell

I don't just have the patriarchy to compete with. I have systemic racism and white supremacy and inequality to compete with.

— Wunmi Mosaku

How many really great writers are there who are totally non-political? You can hear the French Revolution in the poetry of [Percy…

— Adam Hochschild

I am going to attack income inequality and I think I have a pretty good plan to do so. I don't just…

— Hillary Clinton

Sometimes black people really want to hold onto our oppression - 'This is ours! This belongs to us.' You can't just talk…

— Wanda Sykes

Inequality is not just an issue between individuals, between classes, between regions. It's between urban and rural.

— Michael Ignatieff

“If human equality is to be for ever averted — if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their…

— George Orwell

The 1970s were the height of social mobility. College was accessible. My grandfather was a poor immigrant who went to a public…

— Lauren Greenfield

We work harder and we earn less. Income inequality is at the highest point in over a century. While American capitalism never…

— Mario Cuomo

The most desirable mode of education, is that which is careful that all the acquisitions of the pupil shall be preceded and…

— William Godwin

The deep inequalities that persist are visible reminders of the effects of apartheid and colonialism. Until these scars are healed, the vision…

— Kate O'Regan

I don't think that we should have billionaires because, frankly, it is so much money in a moment of such inequality, and…

— Zohran Mamdani

“How reprehensible it is when those blessed with commodities insist on ignoring the poor. Better to torment them, force them into indentured…

— Robert Walser

[W]hen I see men callously and cheerfully denying women the full use of their bodies, while insisting with sobs and howls on…

— Dorothy L. Sayers