“Scholars talk about the endless cycle of poverty and racism and classism and crime. But I don't see it as a cycle,… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
In the U.S. when people like me started writing things about inequality, the economic journals had no classification for inequality. I couldn't… — Branko Milanovic Copy Share Image
Love is a great thing. It is not by chance that in all times and practically among all cultured peoples love in… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I think the stress on income inequality is something that every American should take seriously, we have got to figure out how… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
I worry about growing income inequality. But I worry even more that the discussion is too narrowly focused. I worry that our… — Sendhil Mullainathan Copy Share Image
The best solution to income inequality is providing a high-quality education for everybody. In our highly technological, globalized economy, people without education… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
“Dr. Noah Smith, economics columnist for Bloomberg View, tells us, “The real danger of the ‘rise of the robots’ is not that… — Kelly Weinersmith Copy Share Image
To allow injustice and inequality invites a Ferguson to your community. We must stand together, black, white, brown, red, and yellow and… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
Nobody thinks quotas are a great win for women - the win would be removing the discrimination and inequality that creates under-representation… — Laura Bates Copy Share Image
That's an important Obama accomplishment: he raised taxes back to Bill Clinton levels, and made a major dent in inequality doing so.… — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
Depression is a serious problem, but drugs are not the answer. In the long run, psychotherapy is both cheaper and more effective,… — Irving Kirsch Copy Share Image
“If we want truth and justice to rule our global village, there must be no hypocrisy. If there is no truth, then… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
The natural inequality of the two powers of population and of production in the earth, and that great law of our nature… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
I believe that a lot of progress has been achieved to address gender inequality: We have moved from a time where women… — Zainab Salbi Copy Share Image
It's true that globalization, with all its fantastic improvements in the world and the technological progress linked to it, has increased inequality… — Antonio Guterres Copy Share Image
Go back to - my first campaign for the United States Senate. I got a bunch of people now talking about inequality.… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Charity is no substitute for justice. If we never challenge a social order that allows some to accumulate wealth--even if they decide… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Most of the problem I see amongst friends and I've experienced amongst myself is when people haven't accommodated the inequality that they… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
One of the things I really worry about is that if you don't see middle class wage growth, if you don't see… — James Vance Copy Share Image
Historically marginalized populations have already had less access to wealth and credit building opportunities, and the continued use of credit histories to… — Rashida Tlaib Copy Share Image
Nature eschews regular lines; she does not shape her lines by a common model. Not one of Eve's numerous progeny in all… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
A woman's work, from the time she gets up to the time she goes to bed, is as hard as a day… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
The state of inequality between individuals and between nations not only still exists; it is increasing. It still happens that side by… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
All of my life and particularly throughout of my public career, I have been talking about the feminization of poverty. And one… — Letitia James Copy Share Image
China is now suffering from poverty, not from unequal distribution of wealth. Where there are inequalities of wealth, the methods of Marx… — Sun Yat-sen Copy Share Image
When the rate of return on capital exceeds the rate of growth of output and income, as it did in the nineteenth… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
How many really great writers are there who are totally non-political? You can hear the French Revolution in the poetry of [Percy… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
Stopped as attribute of a person, sex inequality takes the form of gender; moving as a relation between people, it takes the… — Catharine MacKinnon Copy Share Image
consumption can be very harmful to the world. I'm not a big proponent of the idea that consumption makes you morally bad,… — Judith Levine Copy Share Image
Once we ask why it should be that all human beings - including infants, the intellectually disabled, criminal psychopaths, Hitler, Stalin, and… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
he issue of inequality in this country [USA], and the ways that money has captured our political system, are serious indicators of… — Cynthia Kauffman Copy Share Image
QE and other aspects of Fed policy increased inequality pretty significantly. This is reinforced if you take into account all the other… — Gerald Epstein Copy Share Image
Our outrage at inequality is primal. But primal emotions are not always noble ones. Of course, when I see a colleague receive… — Sendhil Mullainathan Copy Share Image
"But when you hear men talking," said Cornelia, "all they ever do is speak ill of women. 'And I don't quite know… — Moderata Fonte Copy Share Image
The middle class is teetering on the brink of collapse just as surely as AIG was in the fall of 2009 -… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
When the wilderness movement emerged, it emerged separate from the issue of social inequality and the economic problems of survival. It was… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
The dominant economic approach of the last thirty years is now on its last legs. Letting the market rip and an indifference… — Frances O'Grady Copy Share Image
Was the earth made to preserve a few covetous, proud men to live at ease, and for them to bag and barn… — Gerrard Winstanley Copy Share Image
[M]en, though they know full well how much women are worth and how great the benefits we bring them, nonetheless seek to… — Moderata Fonte Copy Share Image
![“How many really great writers are there who are totally non-political? You can hear the French Revolution in the poetry of [Percy Bysshe] Shelly and [John] Wordsworth; you can sense the vast inequalities of Tsarist Russia in [Anton] Chekhov and [Lev] Tolstoy.” quote by Adam Hochschild](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/544/adam-hochschild-4138_chekhov_how-many-really-great-writers-are-there_1459719.jpg)
![“he issue of inequality in this country [USA], and the ways that money has captured our political system, are serious indicators of that. And climate change is a game-changer. We really are in serious trouble as a species if we stick with business as usual. We desperately need to find alternatives…” quote by Cynthia Kauffman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6f7/cynthia-kauffman-28352_alternatives_he-issue-of-inequality-in-this-country-u_3097933.jpg)
![“QE and other aspects of Fed policy increased inequality pretty significantly. This is reinforced if you take into account all the other non-standard measures the Fed used to bail out the banks early on in the [2008] crisis.” quote by Gerald Epstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/791/gerald-epstein-28513_accounts_qe-and-other-aspects-of-fed-policy-incre_273248.jpg)
![“[M]en, though they know full well how much women are worth and how great the benefits we bring them, nonetheless seek to destroy us out of envy for our merits. It's just like the crow, when it produces white nestlings: it is so stricken by envy, knowing how black it is itself, that it kills its…” quote by Moderata Fonte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/18f/moderata-fonte-42110_benefits_m-en-though-they-know-full-well-how-much_1290337.jpg)