By defining the problem as 'hunger', the emergency food system is helping to direct our attention away from the more fundamental problem… — Janet Poppendieck Copy Share Image
The ultimate goal of those who blame workers for Wall Street's economic crisis is to unravel the fabric of our common life… — Richard Trumka Copy Share Image
We justify the inequalities by saying some people are just better and smarter than others and the strong should survive and the… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
“So long as tyranny exists, in whatever form, man's deepest aspiration must resist it as inevitably as man must breathe.” — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The sense that materialism has gotten out of hand is magnified by the pressures facing middle-class American families. — Robert Wuthnow Copy Share Image
“Americans were happy to celebrate their super-rich and, at least sometimes, worry about their poor. But putting those two conversations together and… — Chrystia Freeland Copy Share Image
“Indeed, the instability of families’ incomes has risen faster than the inequality of families’ incomes.” — Jonathan Morduch Copy Share Image
Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
The answer to the problem of inequality is for the people who are fortunate enough to either have been gifted or deserved… — Jordan Peterson Copy Share Image
Nothing would more quickly and definitively reduce U.S. income inequality than allowing every worker in all businesses to participate in deciding the… — Richard D. Wolff Copy Share Image
I'm in favor of inequality if it comes about from people making great innovations that make us all better off. And I… — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
It has been the struggle between privileged men who have managed to get hold of the levers of power and the people… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
'Munmun' happened because the human world's dizzying inequality - of wealth and of power - had begun to send me over the… — Jesse Andrews Copy Share Image
We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Anger is a little thing. Hate is a little thing. Order is a little thing. Each of these little things has a… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
I believe the U.S. Supreme Court, as well as a very large swath of the American population, really wants to imagine that… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The growing inequality of wealth and income distribution is both a moral and economic problem. If the wealthy are unwilling to pay… — Bruce Bartlett Copy Share Image
“There are amazing stories of people who made it from the bottom to the top. But what happens on average? What is… — Michael Sokolove Copy Share Image
Since nature does not endow all men with equal beauty or equal intelligence, and the faculty of volition leads men to make… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“A 2011 OECD report showed that, over the past three decades, in Sweden, Finland, Germany, Israel, and New Zealand--all countries that have… — Chrystia Freeland Copy Share Image
“The document that heralded our national revolution, the Declaration of Independence, was penned by Thomas Jefferson. Within that text, he did not… — Honorée Fanonne Jeffers Copy Share Image
To rest the case for equal treatment of national or racial minorities on the assumption that they do not differ from other… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
After all, acknowledging unfairness then calls decent people forth to correct those injustices. And since most persons are at their core, decent… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
“It’s the process of being minimized, invalidated, silenced. It’s the process of being subjected to whatever someone else thinks I owe them.… — Agnostic Zetetic Copy Share Image
Inequality is not just an issue between individuals, between classes, between regions. It's between urban and rural. — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
Because Katrina put it out there, no one can play the pretend game anymore that there isn't poverty and inequality in this… — Marc Morial Copy Share Image
We need radical, transformative solutions to address the inequality that is blighting millions of people's lives. — Angela Rayner Copy Share Image
One of the strengths of our nation has always been a strong middle class who could afford their own homes and send… — James Sinegal Copy Share Image
There is desperate education inequality in America, and I think every kid deserves a good teacher and a good school regardless of… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The unified message in this fight against systemic racism and racial inequality is something that our entire Association is united to fight… — Erik Spoelstra Copy Share Image
The problems of the world, from immigration to populism to income inequality to sustainability to peacekeeping, require a well-functioning supranational body. — Richard Edelman Copy Share Image
People who have to fight for their living and are not afraid to die for it are higher persons than those who,… — Laozi Copy Share Image
We're now in one of those periods when the reality of intense pressure on the middle class diverges from long-held assumptions of… — James Fallows Copy Share Image
As a parent, you want to protect your children, but the fact of racism in this country, of inequality, that is still… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
the vicious result of privilege is that the creature who receives it becomes incapacitated by it as by a disease. — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“This one-two punch—flat incomes and rising expenses—has hit the middle class squarely in the gut. Beginning” — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
If the Internet is worth its salt, it has to help arrest the forces that promote inequality, monopoly, hypercommercialism, corruption, depoliticization and… — Robert Waterman McChesney Copy Share Image
A certain inequality in regard to property still exists in a socialist society. But in a socialist society there is no unemployment,… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
All men, among themselves, are by nature equal. The inequality we now discern hath its spring from the civil law. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
We live in an interconnected world, in an interconnected time, and we need holistic solutions. We have a crisis of inequality, and… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
