“Today, it seems as though inequality is implicitly tolerated,” — Pierre Rosanvallon Copy Share Image
“The porters only walked on carpet; the housekeepers walked everywhere else.” — Belinda Kelderhouse Copy Share Image
Poverty and wealth inequality are a form of instability into the future. — Tavis Smiley Copy Share Image
There are too many people trying to take opportunity from people in the middle class. — Bruce Braley Copy Share Image
White people need to wake up and tell the truth about US history and the inequality and the ways in which racism… — Aaron Dessner Copy Share Image
We can not have equilibrium in this world with the current inequality and destruction of Mother Earth. Capitalism is what is causing… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
“The most immediate is that our middle class is too weak to support the consumer spending that has historically driven our economic… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share Image
I try not to get too political. But coming from South Africa, where apartheid was a huge problem, and there was lots… — Kevin Anderson Copy Share Image
“The problem is that rich are getting richer by not giving and poor and getting poorer by not receiving.” — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
If we don't rebuild that connection with people we will really find even bigger gaps, because our gap on inequality is not… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The only inequalities that matter begin in the mind. It is not income levels but differences in mental equipment that keep people… — Jacquetta Hawkes Copy Share Image
Inequality was written into the creation of the American Republic when our Founding Fathers denied voting rights to women. — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
While gender stereotypes can have negative impacts on men as well, the vast majority of structural gender inequality: socially, politically, professionally and… — Laura Bates Copy Share Image
It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop… — Paul Wellstone Copy Share Image
The capitalist workplace is one of the most profoundly undemocratic institutions on the face of the Earth. Workers have no say over… — Richard D. Wolff Copy Share Image
Race is a huge factor when it comes to income and social inequality, and it plays a role in the structural barriers… — Lauren Greenfield Copy Share Image
“All around the world, the hard realities of a warming world are crashing up against the brutal logic of austerity, revealing just… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
The United States in many ways resembles a Third World country - far more elevated, but it has many of those structural… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Climate change will impact most heavily on the disadvantaged. If we don't address these impacts, as well as growing income inequalities, we… — Wesley K. Wark Copy Share Image
We've got some great big problems in our world. We have to figure out how to feed 10 billion people. Too many… — Scott D. Anthony Copy Share Image
Who's counting? It was, of course, the minority who were counting. It always is. Most of the women I know today would… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
I think that we're at an alarming moment in American political development and maybe in world political development, because the United States… — Frances Fox Piven Copy Share Image
Inequality of wealth and incomes is an essential feature of the market economy. It is the implement that makes the consumers supreme… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“In some circumstances, a focus on extrinsic rewards (money) can actually diminish effort. Most (or at least many) teachers enter their profession… — Joseph E. Stiglitz Copy Share Image
“Basic income is not part of mainstream policy discussions today, but it has a surprisingly long history and came remarkably close to… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
The basic issue of an American society which is fair, which is providing opportunity for all, is nowadays being replaced by the… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
“03:11 And in the past few years, we've been able to propagate this lie even further via social media. You may have… — Stella Young Copy Share Image
When you think of policies that are going to address inequality of wealth, you have to be very thoughtful about what economists… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
Biggest pent-up negative wealth effect you can see in the economic data going back to 1952. — Jan Hatzius Copy Share Image
“I think it's wrong that only one percent of the people should own ninety percent of the country.” — Sally Wentworth Copy Share Image
Decreasing economic growth and increasing inequality leads to increased uncertainty. — Nicholas Bloom Copy Share Image
“In the US, the more liberal a city’s politics, the higher the rate of inequality.45” — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
The importance of tackling inequality in Africa cannot be overstated. — Winnie Byanyima Copy Share Image
Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself. — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
