Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Inequality is not just an issue between individuals, between classes, between regions. It's between urban and rural. — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
How can you trust people who are poor and own no property? ... Inequality of property will exist as long as liberty exists. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Protecting space for civil society and citizenry is particularly critical in a world marked by rising political and economic inequality. — Winnie Byanyima Copy Share Image
We justify the inequalities by saying some people are just better and smarter than others and the strong should survive and the… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
“Americans were happy to celebrate their super-rich and, at least sometimes, worry about their poor. But putting those two conversations together and… — Chrystia Freeland Copy Share Image
“So long as tyranny exists, in whatever form, man's deepest aspiration must resist it as inevitably as man must breathe.” — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The sense that materialism has gotten out of hand is magnified by the pressures facing middle-class American families. — Robert Wuthnow Copy Share Image
As inequality grows, the basic bonds of social fraternity are fraying - as we discussed in regard to Occupy Wall Street. As… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
“Much like the kākāpō who waddles up a hill, digs a hole and bellows into it to attract a mate, billionaires may… — Natalie Kyriacou Copy Share Image
We cannot live without trade. A society can neither advance nor improve without excess of disposable income. This excess can only be… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
These economic, social, cultural and educational causes of opportunity inequality are complex. And they will not be solved by continuing with the… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
One feels so despairing on some levels about what's going on in our culture, in regards to things like gender inequality. But… — Uma Thurman Copy Share Image
“there is a global rejection of society as it presently exists together with acceptance of the mechanisms that produce that society. De… — Pierre Rosanvallon Copy Share Image
“Given our current system of property ownership, it makes sense that we would see greater wealth inequality in places where there's greater… — Martin Adams Copy Share Image
I recognize that globalization has helped many people rise out of poverty, but it has also damned many others to starve to… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
We have to put reduction of health inequalities at the centre of our public health strategy and that will require action on… — Michael Marmot Copy Share Image
By defining the problem as 'hunger', the emergency food system is helping to direct our attention away from the more fundamental problem… — Janet Poppendieck Copy Share Image
The ultimate goal of those who blame workers for Wall Street's economic crisis is to unravel the fabric of our common life… — Richard Trumka Copy Share Image
“It was the lot of the Fifity-fourth to bear the brunt of the struggle against the bitter injustice of inferior pay to… — Luis Fenollosa Emilio Copy Share Image
Every Hindu knows that astrologers try to fix the caste of every boy or girl as soon as he or she is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
God, how patient are Thy poor! These corporations and masters of manipulation in finance heaping up great fortunes by a system of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have a religion-but you will call it blasphemy. It is that there is a God for the rich man but none… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Just as the commandment 'Thou shalt not kill' sets a clear limit in order to safeguard the value of human life, today… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
We have the history of slavery or inequality to women, and now the civil rights movement of the 21st century is the… — George Takei Copy Share Image
Forty-two years after Dr. King was murdered, we are still a nation of inequality. People of color, women, gays, lesbians, and others… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
“After 1908, and especially after 1945, capitalist greed was somewhat reined in, not least due to the fear of Communism. Yet inequities… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Some liberals think that describing any role that education gaps play in creating income inequality is some sort of sellout - that,… — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
A holistic solution to income inequality is going to take a lot of work, but every time you prove that one of… — Bill de Blasio Copy Share Image
The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This is what income inequality means in America, and why the gap between the very rich and everyone else is growing wider.… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Capitalism cannot be reduced to one or a few features, but it does possess one relationship, central to its existence and operation,… — Herbert Schiller Copy Share Image
The scientific approach uncovers, that Communism does not eliminate the inequality between men, the social injustice, exploitation of man by man and… — Alexander Zinoviev Copy Share Image
Rural communities in Africa, South Asia and Latin America are where the majority of hungry people are and the inequality that exists… — Dionne Warwick Copy Share Image
I'm of those who believe that excesses in all matters are not a good idea, whether it's formation of bubbles, whether it's… — Christine Lagarde Copy Share Image
Inequality can be done away with only by establishing a new society, where men and women will enjoy equal rights, resulting from… — Thomas Sankara Copy Share Image
“Despite Marc Andreessen’s and Peter Thiel’s belief that the outsize gains of tech billionaires are the result of a genius entrepreneur culture,… — Jonathan Taplin Copy Share Image
What the Democrats do with income inequality is punish the people at the top of whatever bracket we're talking about. If it's… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The problem in Peru is not so much poverty - it is inequality. The essence of the discourse in 2005 and 2006… — Ollanta Humala Copy Share Image
Individual nations have offered their own contributions to income inequality - financial deregulation and upper-bracket tax cuts in the United States; insider… — Chrystia Freeland Copy Share Image
