The default of our society is the reproduction of racial inequality. I mean, that's what it does; that's what it's been doing… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
At the core of conservative social policy about race are old ideas that link racial inequality to non-traditional family formation and its… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
The top 10 per cent of the US population appropriated 91 per cent of income growth between 1989 and 2006, while the… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
You can call it institutionalized racism or institutionalized inequality, but what I say is that any system that operates to maintain inequality… — Robert D Bullard Copy Share Image
It's unfair when we find ourselves loving those who don't care about us while ignoring those who truly care and love us. — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
Equal civil marriage should, and likely will, pass because of the public's growing unwillingness to sustain inequality. — Tom Suozzi Copy Share Image
Structuralism argues that a liberal capitalist world economy tends to preserve or actually increase inequalities between developed and less developed economies. — Robert Gilpin Copy Share Image
The Procrustean bed is not a symbol of equality. It is no less inequality to have equality among unequals. — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
There is a middle class in America for only one reason: organized labor. If not for organized labor, where would you find… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
Today, the top one-tenth of 1% owns nearly as much wealth as the bottom 90%. The economic game is rigged, and this… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
We must recover the whole sense of gift, of gratuitousness, of solidarity. Rampant capitalism has taught the logic of profit at all… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Since inequalities of privilege are greater than could possibly be defended rationally, the intelligence of privileged groups is usually applied to the… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
If, for example, each of us had the same share of capital in the national total capital, then if the share of… — Branko Milanovic Copy Share Image
Quietly, without much public fuss or discussion, a new ruling class has risen in the richer nations. These men and women are… — Neil Macdonald Copy Share Image
The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I trace the inequality to a particular set of decisions that we took when we lowered the tax rate from 91% down… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
“Utopianism also finds a receptive audience among the society's disenchanted, disaffected, dissatisfied, and maladjusted who are unwilling or unable to assume responsibility… — Mark R. Levin Copy Share Image
The Fed cannot reduce inequality on its own; far from it. This requires a concerted effort by the government, broadly speaking, to… — Gerald Epstein Copy Share Image
We're living through an era of higher income inequality than the country has experienced since before the Great Depression. Meanwhile, most people… — Sasha Abramsky Copy Share Image
“a basic income is arguably more justified by the need for economic security than by a desire to eradicate poverty. Martin Luther… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
Domestic and supranational regulatory capture leads to two things: on the one hand, to an inequality spiral where the rich get richer… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
It is from this absolute indifference and tranquillity of the mind, that mathematical speculations derive some of the most considerable advantages; because… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
It is no exaggeration to say that rising inequality has driven many of the 99 percent into a financial ditch. It also… — Robert H. Frank Copy Share Image
The truth is that political consciousness in this country is pretty low... To the degree that we can help educate and organize… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
“You are one, and we are many, We are everywhere and nowhere at the same time. We are the face of justice.” — J.B. Lion Copy Share Image
My motivation is to help ensure all young people of color live up to their potential and succeed in the face of… — Rich Paul Copy Share Image
Education is a liberating force, and in our age it is also a democratizing force, cutting across the barriers of caste and… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Probably no country has ever had as large a shift in the distribution of wealth [as what we've seen in the U.S.… — Lester Thurow Copy Share Image
The women who do the most work get the least money, and the women who have the most money do the least… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
A new business model based on old principles of social justice where people matter - now that's a revolutionary way to reduce… — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
BRAZILIFICATION:The widening gulf between the rich and the poor and the accompanying disappearance of the middle classes. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Misguided economic and tax policies have hampered growth, allowing the rich to become richer while turning the middle class into the working… — Anthony Scaramucci Copy Share Image
The gender inequality in book reviewing isn't getting better. Male authors get the majority of review coverage, and male reviewers do most… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
When Colin Kaepernick first took a knee, he took it, and he identified police brutality, aggressive policing techniques, he broadened it to… — Will Cain Copy Share Image
High levels of inequality generate high costs for society, dampening social mobility, undermining the labour market prospects of vulnerable social groups, and… — Jose Angel Gurria Copy Share Image
When minimum living wages, bargaining for fair wages, pensions, and job security are denied in too many countries, it is not rocket… — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
The key to understanding the rise in inequality isn't technology or globalization. It's the power of the moneyed interests to shape the… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
In a world of massive wealth and income inequality, Europe must support Greece’s efforts to build an economy which creates more jobs… — Bernie Sanders 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 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