A guaranteed basic income has the potential for making civic organizations, families and neighborhoods much more vital, helpful and responsive than they… — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Yesterday was not only daylight saving time, but also International Women's Day. What better way to address the issue of inequality for… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
Health inequalities and the social determinants of health are not a footnote to the determinants of health. They are the main issue. — Michael Marmot Copy Share Image
“Chief among these headwinds is the rise of inequality that since 1970 has steadily directed an ever larger share of the fruits… — Robert J. Gordon Copy Share Image
“Income inequality,” say two leading scientists who have studied twenty-four developed countries, “makes us all less happy with our lives, even if… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
There are only three ways by which any individual can get wealth — by work, by gift or by theft. And, clearly,… — Henry George Copy Share Image
The U.S. has some of the most significant income inequality in the developed world, yet people seem routinely to underestimate that fact. — Maria Konnikova 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
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
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
“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
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
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
While households that make anywhere from $48,000 to $250,000 can call themselves middle class, to group such a wide range of incomes… — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
Organizations endure, however, in proportion to the breadth of the morality by which they are governed. Thus the endurance of organization depends… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
They talk about class warfare -- the fact of the matter is there has been class warfare for the last thirty years.… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
This kind of gaping inequality gives lie to the promise that’s at the very heart of America: that this is a place… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“In developing country contexts, basic income and cash transfers have been shown to have positive effects on entrepreneurship;3 in Madhya Pradesh, basic… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
“As a battle cry against feudalism, the demand for democracy had a progressive character. As time went on, however, the metaphysics of… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
“What we see in the period 1870–1914 is at best a stabilization of inequality at an extremely high level, and in certain… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
“I do not see how it is possible for a man to die worth fifty million of dollars, or ten million of… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“I am not posing these questions only to the world at large. I query us who own Christ as our life. Can… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
You'll also hear about the widening gap in the educated and the uneducated. The liberals will all say, "We must do something… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The wealthy don't cry over the fact that they are wealthy as long as the poor cry about the poverty that surrounds… — Morph Vishn Copy Share Image
Democracy is premised, in some measure, on majority rule, and democracy is difficult in a situation of concentrated inequalities in which a… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
The more I've been able to learn about gay rights and equal pay and gender equity and racial inequality, the more that… — Megan Rapinoe Copy Share Image
As of today, we do not need expert reports by the authoritative analytical institutions to realise that the reasons for such a… — Nursultan Nazarbayev Copy Share Image
High levels of economic inequality lead to imbalances in political power, as those at the top use their economic weight to shape… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
I would say that in this world, the greatest source of inequality has been special privileges granted by government. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“The most convincing and enduring foe of the global financial economy ultimately is the global financial economy itself. - Ulrich Beck” — Richard Swift Copy Share Image
At the heart of the problem is the fact that the United States is a racially divided nation where extreme racial inequalities… — Robert D Bullard Copy Share Image
Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I think inequality is fine, as long as it is in the common interest. The problem is when it gets so extreme,… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
Early investment in the lives of disadvantaged children will help reduce inequality, in both the short and the long run. — James Heckman Copy Share Image
My advice to everybody would be to go out as much as possible and deal with social inequality and environmental degradation because… — David Harvey Copy Share Image
Income inequality and wage stagnation finally took their place among the principal moral issues of our time. — David Rolf Copy Share Image
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Our failure as a society to properly acknowledge and confront the psychological, social, and political effects of white privilege has perpetuated racial… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
We still have gaps that are rooted in gender inequality. Certainly we have discrimination against the LGBT community. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
