But it is also clear that left entirely untouched by public policy, the capitalist system will produce more inequality than is socially… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
Income inequality matters more on a day-to-day basis. Wealth matters more for political influence. — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
The inequality between CEO compensation and the compensation received by workers and stockholders has grown to such an extent that it endangers… — Danny K. Davis Copy Share Image
On inequality, I contend that far too much of the nation's wealth and income is gravitating to too few. This undermines the… — James Stone Copy Share Image
We should get rid of 'tick box' measures that do nothing to address underlying inequality in areas like employment. And we should… — Munira Mirza Copy Share Image
We have to deal with issues like inequality, we have deal with issues of economic dislocation, we have to deal with peoples… — Barack Obama 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
Henry Blodget says, "It is not clear what, if any, power and influence [Steven Lerner] currently wields. His main message - that… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I believe you should tell the story of injustices, of inequalities, of bad conditions, so that the people as a whole in… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Turn off your televisions. Ignore the Newt-Mitt-Rick- Barack reality show. It is as relevant to your life as the gossip on “Jersey… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
Even after facing jail, Martin Luther King, Jr. courageously and boldly spoke out against racial inequality. — Yvette Clarke 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
“It does seem true that a young woman may sometimes behave in a way that can be called titillating, and that men… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
A world where Congressmen spend 30 to 70 percent of their time raising money from a tiny, tiny fraction of the 1%… — Lawrence Lessig 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
“… as we submit to be dressed like dolls, we never can rise to the stations of duty and usefulness from which… — Sarah Grimké Copy Share Image
The spirit of commerce is frugality, economy, moderation, labor, ponderance, tranquillity, order, and rule. So long as this spirit subsides, the riches… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Wherever there is great property there is great inequality. For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Don't be taken in when they paternally pat you on the shoulder and say that there's no inequality worth speaking of and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“People were lost and people were scared and their lynch ropes couldn't reach bankers or stockbrokers, so they looked for targets closer… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
Our modern democratic ideal is based on the hope that inequalities will be based on merit more than inheritance or luck. — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
Angus Deaton has written a wonderful book, The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality. . . . Deaton's book… — Michael Marmot 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
“Meritocracy is a social arrangement like any other: it is a loose set of rules that can be adapted in order to… — Shamus Rahman Khan 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
