The past few decades of widening inequality can be summed up as significant income and wealth gains for those at the very… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
A universal basic income would be the best way to give everyone the opportunity to do more unpaid but incredibly important work,… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
I don't really care much about what the top one per cent earn. The gap we ought to care about in wealth… — Steve Hilton Copy Share Image
“Inequality is everywhere at the bottom of faction, for in general faction arises from men's striving for what is equal.” — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“We certainly face, as did the ancient Greeks, the problem of oligarchy—ever more threatening as globalization increases differences in wealth.” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“It’s the underlying inequality. Someone is always the one who loves more, and it eventually drives the other—the less loving one—away. Just… — Diana Peterfreund Copy Share Image
Inequality is on the rise in Canada and those at the top have no idea what life is like for most Canadian… — Jagmeet Singh Copy Share Image
“Inequality is not necessarily bad in itself: the key question is to decide whether it is justified, whether there are reasons for… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
Occupying the bottom end of the inequality ladder, and becoming a 'collateral victim' of a human action or a natural disaster, interact… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
ulturally, we are definitely seeing people being to ask hard questions. There's been a major shift over the last year. The NSA… — Astra Taylor 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
To live in a culture in which women are routinely naked where men aren't is to learn inequality in little ways all… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
When I was poor and I complained about inequality they said I was bitter. Now I'm rich and I complain about inequality… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
It's really difficult for mainstream - let's say, cable outlets - to talk about things like income inequality, wealth inequality when the… — Ana Kasparian Copy Share Image
I think markets are mechanisms that determine prices that are necessary for mass heterogenous populations, and markets do generate levels of technological… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The elimination of ignorance, of illiteracy... and of needless inequalities in opportunities (is) to be seen as objectives that are valued for… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
An important factor influencing intergenerational mobility and trends in inequality over time is economic opportunity. — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
I believe it is wrong, in a country of such wealth and prosperity, to have 36 million Americans living in poverty. — John Edward Copy Share Image
Lynching is an important aspect of racial history and racial inequality in America, because it was visible, it was so public, it… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
I feel disheartened when I see stereotypes, because it's untrue and unfair. It just raises the level of inequality. — Sonoya Mizuno Copy Share Image
If we will not endure a king as a political power, we should not endure a king over the production, transportation, and… — John Sherman Copy Share Image
With a Socialist government, there will not be a national surplus whilst there continues to be inequality. — Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero Copy Share Image
No matter how we name and dissect inequality, we must keep explaining the larger downside of such concentrated extreme wealth. — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
“There are places where you can live only when you are healthy, in those places when you fall ill it's the end… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
One of the most important of all the causes of great inequality of income is the inheritance of a great fortune by… — Hugh Dalton Copy Share Image
If you really want to end income inequality, I've got the way to fix it. People who don't work shouldn't get any… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
That's part of American greatness, is discrimination. Yes, sir. Inequality, I think, breeds freedom and gives a man opportunity. — Lester Maddox Copy Share Image
It's astounding to me that in a country where there is an ever-growing divide between rich and poor, that people won't accept… — Bill Pullman Copy Share Image
“For instance, in Sweden, Finland, and Germany, income inequality has actually grown more quickly over the past twenty to thirty years than… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
All men, among themselves, are by nature equal. The inequality we now discern hath its spring from the civil law. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
A certain inequality in regard to property still exists in a socialist society. But in a socialist society there is no unemployment,… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
There's something in the cross that says this is not just about my "salvation" but about the "salvation" of all those who… — Mel White Copy Share Image
Inequality causes problems by creating fissures in societies, leaving those at the bottom feeling marginalized or disenfranchised. — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
We live in an interconnected world, in an interconnected time, and we need holistic solutions. We have a crisis of inequality, and… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
The problems of the world, from immigration to populism to income inequality to sustainability to peacekeeping, require a well-functioning supranational body. — Richard Edelman Copy Share Image
The unified message in this fight against systemic racism and racial inequality is something that our entire Association is united to fight… — Erik Spoelstra Copy Share Image
People who have to fight for their living and are not afraid to die for it are higher persons than those who,… — Laozi Copy Share Image
There is desperate education inequality in America, and I think every kid deserves a good teacher and a good school regardless of… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
If the Internet is worth its salt, it has to help arrest the forces that promote inequality, monopoly, hypercommercialism, corruption, depoliticization and… — Robert Waterman McChesney Copy Share Image
“This one-two punch—flat incomes and rising expenses—has hit the middle class squarely in the gut. Beginning” — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image