As long as inequality and other social problems plague us, populists will try to exploit them. — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
“It’s not right that some people have so much and others have so little.” — Paula Stokes Copy Share Image
When inequality gets to an extreme, it is completely useless for growth. — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself. — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
The importance of tackling inequality in Africa cannot be overstated. — Winnie Byanyima Copy Share Image
After adjusting for inflation, the average income of the top 5% of households grew by 38% from 1989 to 2013. By comparison,… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
There are four headwinds that are just hitting the American economy in the face: They're demographics, education, debt and inequality. They're powerful… — Robert J. Gordon Copy Share Image
You don't need to visit a prison to know that racial inequality exists. There's enough talk about it, especially in Silicon Valley,… — Christine Tsai Copy Share Image
Economics is sometimes associated with the study and defense of selfishness and material inequality, but it has an egalitarian and civil libertarian… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
Capitalism is a system that's ultimately predicated on and depends on some form of inequality. Feminism has always intersected with capitalism in… — Andi Zeisler Copy Share Image
If all were equalized by death, as the medieval idea constantly emphasized, was it not possible that inequalities on earth were contrary… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Democrats deserve credit for engaging with big issues such as climate change and income inequality and coming up with bold, imaginative solutions. — Max Boot Copy Share Image
We're all burdened by our history of racial inequality. It's created a kind of smog that we all breathe in, and it… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
You have someone like Colin or many of the other athletes who have knelt, especially athletes of colour, and if you're not… — Megan Rapinoe Copy Share Image
The spirit of rebellion can only exist in a society where a theoretical equality conceals great factual inequalities. The problem of rebellion,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
What is different between national inequality and global inequality is you have another element there that is sometimes forgotten: what matters for… — Branko Milanovic Copy Share Image
I think of the difficulties which, in various countries, today afflicts the world of work and business; I think of how many,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I think it has other roots, has to do, in part, with a general anxiety in contemporary life... nuclear bombs, inequality of… — Leonard Baskin Copy Share Image
First of all, [Buckminster Fuller's] identification of the problems that are all that much more pertinent, all that much more pressing in… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
We still live in a world of such gross injustice and inequality, that only privileged people like ourselves can afford to think… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
Let there be no mistake, Sen Sanders, his campaign and the vigorous debate that we've had about how to raise incomes, how… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
“This fundamental inequality, which I will write as r > g (where r stands for the average annual rate of return on… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
Unequal Democracy is the sort of book to which every political scientist should aspire--it is methodologically rigorous, conceptually serious, and above all,… — Robert D. Putnam Copy Share Image
Will it be said that the judgment of a male of two years old, is more sage than that of a female's… — Judith Sargent Murray 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
“[J]ust the sight of this book, even though it was of no authority, made me wonder how it happened that so many… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
More fundamentally, this kind of gaping inequality gives lie to the promise at the very heart of America: that this is the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I'm more attuned than ever to the proliferation of groups that are working for justice and equality. They're all over the country.… — Solly Granatstein 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
Decreasing economic growth and increasing inequality leads to increased uncertainty. — Nicholas Bloom 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
Biggest pent-up negative wealth effect you can see in the economic data going back to 1952. — Jan Hatzius Copy Share Image
There are too many people trying to take opportunity from people in the middle class. — Bruce Braley Copy Share Image
Poverty and wealth inequality are a form of instability into the future. — Tavis Smiley Copy Share Image
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