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
“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
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
“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
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
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
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
Patriarchy 101 would have you believe otherwise, but you know - that's just not true. Those inequalities are recipes for resentment. And,… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Four hundred top-decision makers listed the myriad looming threats to global security, including famine, terrorism, inequality, disease, poverty and climate change. Yet… — Margaret Catley-Carlson Copy Share Image
“An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls — even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls — without discovering sooner or later… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
No person, I think, ever saw a herd of buffalo, of which a few were fat and the great majority lean. No… — Henry George Copy Share Image
By some estimates, income and wealth inequality are near their highest levels in the past hundred years, much higher than the average… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
If we wait until income inequality is much more severe, we will have a whole class of new superrich who will probably… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
Diversity on the bench is critical. As practitioners, you need judges who 'get it!' We need judges who understand what discrimination feels… — Debbie Wasserman Schultz Copy Share Image
A lot of women seem to have a similar attitude, - 'I'm not a feminist' - and it gets wearying. What's wrong… — Mary Stott Copy Share Image
If welfare and equality are to be primary aims of law, some people must necessarily possess a greater power of coercion in… — Tibor R. Machan Copy Share Image
This happens today: if the investments in the banks fall slightly... a tragedy... what can be done? But if people die of… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Passion for equality blinds the utopian to the fact that society, as a whole, is based on inequality of men in two… — Thomas Steven Molnar Copy Share Image
I feel like part of the inequality is that there are few great roles written for older women, and I think part… — Erin Davie Copy Share Image
I have been really heartened by how much coverage there has been about inequality of pay across the board, between the entertainment… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
“Power is a fickle mistress, easy to seduce, but even easier to lose. That's how it works. One moment she is your… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
I fear that our loss of a sense of connection with, and duties to, each other leaves us unable to effectively address… — David Wong Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'The Assistants,' I knew very much that I wanted to write about income inequality and student loan debt and… — Camille Perri Copy Share Image
I was at the World Bank and a commission reviewed our work on inequality for the U.S. Congress or somebody, and the… — Branko Milanovic Copy Share Image
In college, when I was kind of confronted with facts and figures about inequality in America, a big impulse I had was… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
“We have created a society in which all the nation’s economic gains flow to the top and the vast majority sees income… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share Image
The gap between rich and poor is, in fact, widening enormously. This idea of building up the powers of people who are… — Robert Wyatt 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
An inequality of property is the root and foundation of innumerable evils; it tends to derision, and to keep asunder the social… — Orson Pratt Copy Share Image
There must be an end to white monopoly on political power, and a fundamental restructuring of our political and economic systems to… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“Security is a precious asset. It should be a goal of everyone who genuinely wants to build a good society rather than… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
The worldwide financial and economic crisis seems to highlight their distortions and above all the gravely deficient human perspective, which reduces man… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The heart of the liberal philosophy is a belief in the dignity of the individual, in his freedom to make the most… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I have been very careful to put forward new ideas - on tackling inequality, extending democratic reform and the green agenda, because… — Peter Hain Copy Share Image
