Instead of a universal basic income, we could have a basic income guarantee. Or, as economists prefer to call it, a negative… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
To me, feminism means equality between men and women. I want to make people laugh and also point out some injustices or… — Amy Schumer Copy Share Image
“How could they do it, how could they?" "I don't know, but they did. They've done it before and they did it… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Increases in interest rates normally worsen inequality, at least partly by reducing employment and wage growth. — Gerald Epstein Copy Share Image
Income inequality is one thing, but a permanent division into the haves and have-nots is an entirely different thing - and much… — Chrystia Freeland Copy Share Image
Marriage (in what is called the spiritual world) is impossible, because of the inequality between every subject and every object. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When we are honest, we admit how agreeable it can feel to be singled out for favored treatment. The biggest barrier to… — Philip Gulley 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
I think it has other roots, has to do, in part, with a general anxiety in contemporary life... nuclear bombs, inequality of… — Leonard Baskin Copy Share Image
What is different between national inequality and global inequality is you have another element there that is sometimes forgotten: what matters for… — Branko Milanovic Copy Share Image
I think of the difficulties which, in various countries, today afflicts the world of work and business; I think of how many,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
You have someone like Colin or many of the other athletes who have knelt, especially athletes of colour, and if you're not… — Megan Rapinoe Copy Share Image
The spirit of rebellion can only exist in a society where a theoretical equality conceals great factual inequalities. The problem of rebellion,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The rich believe that they're different and that it is their right to pay a much lower tax rate. The response that… — Robin Wells Copy Share Image
It is true that globalization has fueled greater income inequality. But much of this increase should be welcomed, not condemned. There is… — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
Consistently rated the most peaceable of all countries in the world by the Global Peace Index, Iceland has reduced its military expenditure… — Scilla Elworthy 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
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
“We were like captive animals that had lost the will to fight. We even went so far as to defend the very… — Manal al-Sharif Copy Share Image
No sustainable development, environmental harmony or lasting security will happen if we are unable to eradicate hunger and extreme inequality — Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Copy Share Image
College was a wonderful time to really explore my interests. I ended up writing my senior thesis about gender inequality in the… — Lauren Bush Copy Share Image
We need to see the FLSA and the minimum wage as part of a larger struggle to cut poverty and to address… — Tom Perez Copy Share Image
I've been talking about things like reversing the rise of inequality and strengthening social mobility,since before it was cool. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
A tight-money policy reinforces inequality in two ways. Its high interest rates disproportionately reward the rich, and the resulting unemployment disproportionately punishes… — Linda McQuaig Copy Share Image
“If human equality is to be for ever averted — if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
A multi-tier social protection system must be based on a modest basic income so as to enable the precariat to build lives… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
If you're just the person with power, exercising that power fearfully and angrily, you're going to be an operative of injustice and… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
Inequality may linger in the world of material things, but great music, great literature, great art and the wonders of science are,… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
When inequality gets too extreme, then it becomes useless for growth, and it can even become bad because it tends to lead… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
The middle class in America is at a tipping point. It will not last another generation if we don't boldly change course… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
There is a huge number of people outside our borders who would love to come here. In fact, many of them come… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the glorious inequality of talent, of genius. — Felix Schelling Copy Share Image
Couldn't we even argue that it is because men are unequal that they have that much more need to be brothers? — Charles Du Bos Copy Share Image
Do not banish reason for inequality; but let your reason serve to make the truth appear where it seems hid, and hide… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Wishy-washy equivocations - and not just on abortion, but on immigration, on civil rights, on income inequality - weaken all of us. — Laura Moser Copy Share Image
Unions did in fact build the middle class. And here's what that did. That built the United States of America as we… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
A science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth, or… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
If someone thinks of something, some new innovation that benefits us all, and the market works properly, they get richly rewarded for… — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
