Rising inequality hasn't really accomplished anything of value for its ostensible beneficiaries, the top one percent. They've all built bigger mansions and… — Robert H. Frank Copy Share Image
At a time of massive inequality, I think we can raise substantial sums of revenue to address the needs of working families,… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Everyone has a right to a job, everyone has a right to an education, everyone has a right to health care, everyone… — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
The growth of equality … calls for decisions, mechanisms and processes directed to a better distribution of wealth, the creation of sources… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
There's a lot of freedom to do anything you want in Mexico. It's just that that freedom belongs to a few. It's… — Diego Luna Copy Share Image
“Incentives aren't the only thing that matter for economic growth. Opportunity is also crucial, and extreme inequality deprives many people of the… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace - it really means removing all the negative factors… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
“Homelessness is illegal. In my city no one is homeless although there are an increasing number of criminals living on the street.… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
At the start of the second decade of the 21st century, young people all over the world are demonstrating against a variety… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I was always made aware of inequality in society, that there was a class system. In Somalia, we have clan structures. My… — Ilhan Omar Copy Share Image
We are here because we share a fundamental belief: that poverty, illiteracy, disease and inequality do not belong in the twenty-first century.… — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Copy Share Image
In the same way that Occupy Wall Street forever elevated that concept of income inequality, the Black Lives Matter protesters have elevated… — Charles M. Blow Copy Share Image
This is why moral uneasiness is destined to become even more acute. It is obvious that a fundamental defect, or rather a… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
“Until recently, I never realized to what degree the middle class is a moral, rather than an economic, entity, based less on… — Andrew Todhunter Copy Share Image
Americans have so far put up with inequality because they felt they could change their status. They didn't mind others being rich,… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
Nothing is more subtly destructive than a closed circle of artists feeding on one another. Envy grows from insignificant differences between people,… — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
If we had done the work that we should have done in the 20th century to combat our history of racial inequality,… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
In the United States today we have the most unequal wealth and income distribution of any major country on earth - worse… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
We [the Republicans] help the middle class when we unburden them from the very policies that Hillary Clinton would double down on.… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
The impact of climate change will fall disproportionately upon developing countries and the poor persons within all countries. It will therefore exacerbate… — Rajendra K. Pachauri Copy Share Image
President Obama believes that income inequality is one of the most pressing matters facing the nation. If we are going to be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
First of all, this whole idea of this one percent versus the 99 percent, it's a false statistic. There's nobody that is… — Jon Lovitz Copy Share Image
“You know how the story ends. He escaped and went on to become the greatest chief Suntown ever had. He never built… — Nnedi Okorafor Copy Share Image
Inequalities of wealth, unjustly established, have assuredly injured the nation in which they exist during their establishment; and, unjustly directed, they injure… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
There are dangers that globalization increases inequality. There are dangers that because capital is mobile and workers are not, if we are… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
we should reject the attempt to divert the national conversation away from soaring inequality toward the alleged moral failings of those Americans… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
“Equality works. Extreme inequality does not. Out of the grotesque opportunism that we’ve seen among owners of great wealth in the past… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share Image
A world where wages no longer rise still needs consumers. Middle-class purchasing power has been maintained through loans, loans and more loans.… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
I think I understand the relationships between different people within the company: people who are straightforward employees, people who can impact the… — Tom Steyer Copy Share Image
“Immodest creature, you do not want a woman who will accept your faults, you want the one who pretends you are faultless… — George Sand Copy Share Image
'Inequality' has become the political theme/slogan of our time in both Europe and the U.S., yet political leaders do not even bother… — Paul Singer Copy Share Image
The truth is, Hillary Clinton's ideas create more income inequality. Why? Because bigger government creates crony capitalism. When you have a 70,000… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
Inequality brings a visceral reaction. We fought many years to bring others to believe in what was possible with women's soccer, in… — Julie Foudy Copy Share Image
Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enforced inequality - an authoritarian… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
We deal with our mind from morning until evening. This mind can be our best friend or our worst enemy. We should… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
The biggest danger I feel are an emerging group of Westernised, educated, champagne socialists and latte liberals who pontificate about social inequality,… — Calvin Cheng Copy Share Image
I have lectured at the U.N. and travelled widely, giving lectures on human rights and gender inequalities in universities. But this is… — Taslima Nasrin Copy Share Image
I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In a process that had begun in the 1980s and suddenly accelerated in the early 2000s ... [t]he peaks of great wealth… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
The most desirable mode of education, is that which is careful that all the acquisitions of the pupil shall be preceded and… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
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