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
'Tanu Weds Manu's brilliance lies in the fact that it makes the middle class want to be aspirational. — R. Madhavan Copy Share Image
The middle class has just fallen further and further behind the rich. — William Julius Wilson Copy Share Image
We live in a world in which we're seeing an increasing gap between the haves and the have-nots. — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
Everywhere, and at all times, economic progress has meant far more to the poor than to the rich. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I think the media and the candidates have got to talk about why the middle class is in decline and why we… — Bernie Sanders 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
It is not possible to have a strong, functioning business in a world of increasing inequality, poverty, and climate change. — Paul Polman Copy Share Image
I know that there are many excellent arguments for a universal form of basic income. Since everyone would get it, it would… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
For every challenge we face - unemployment, poverty, crime, income growth, income inequality, productivity, competitiveness - a great education is a major… — Bruce Rauner Copy Share Image
Everywhere there is inequality, everywhere there is division, and I worry about it. I think everybody does. — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
“The Order? Here inside such a weak soul?” “His spirit is failing, his faith too old." “He cannot be saved." “Few have… — J.B. Lion Copy Share Image
The profound lack of economic opportunity for those left behind by globalization has created an ever-widening gap between the 'haves' and the… — Punit Renjen Copy Share Image
The increase in inequality in income is a longtime trend, but the pressure on middle- and low-income workers is going up rapidly.… — Alice Rivlin Copy Share Image
Don't give up - our country needs you now more than ever. This is a pivotal moment in the history of our… — Kamala Harris Copy Share Image
If accessing the Internet becomes more difficult for low-income communities, academic and employment competition may be undermined, and could damage the prospects… — Letitia James Copy Share Image
I think it's a very central tenet to it yes, it is. I can't bear it, I can't bear inequality, I can't… — Janet Suzman Copy Share Image
The Unheavenly Chorus is the definitive study of participatory inequality in America. Marshaling prodigious evidence, the authors show how money not only… — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
It clearly follows that to make men moral it is necessary to make their social environment moral. And that can be done… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
Economic growth driven by large-scale infrastructure investments without equitable provision of education will leave hundreds of millions of people behind, exacerbating inequality,… — Julia Gillard Copy Share Image
I maintain that the period during the first half of the 1990s, the period in which rising inequality reached its peak, was… — William Julius Wilson Copy Share Image
What we face in Canada are multiple overlapping crises. We have the climate crisis, which is screaming down on us - all… — Avi Lewis Copy Share Image
A Christian woman's true freedom lies on the other side of a very small gate...humble obedience...but that gate leads out into a… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
“His August Majesty chided the bureaucrats for failing to understand a simple principle: the principle of the second bag. Because the people… — Ryszard Kapuściński Copy Share Image
Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all. Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was… — Evita Peron Copy Share Image
For too long we have tried to consume our way to prosperity. Look at the cost: polluted lands and oceans, climate change,… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
In a really equal democracy, every or any section would be represented, not disproportionately, but proportionately. ... Unless they are, there is… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
To reverse the trend and reduce the role of government in our lives, and thus alleviate the government deficit and inflation pressures,… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
... legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property... Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Incomes will become more unequal within jurisdictions and more equal between them.” — James Dale Davidson Copy Share Image
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
Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself. — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
When inequality gets to an extreme, it is completely useless for growth. — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
