We should get rid of 'tick box' measures that do nothing to address underlying inequality in areas like employment. And we should… — Munira Mirza Copy Share Image
I challenge British Muslims to accept that as strongly as they feel about Iraq or counter-terrorism measures, poverty and inequality have the… — Sadiq Khan Copy Share Image
In our society it is murder, psychologically, to deprive a man of a job or an income. You are in substance saying… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“In truth it is inequality that is the illusion. The extreme disproportion between men, that we seem to see in life, is… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It's the middle class; it's middle Ireland, and it's a group of people who often feel that they contribute a lot to… — Leo Varadkar Copy Share Image
Until affirmative action is described and understood as one mechanism by which to make amends for historical wrongdoing against members of marginalized… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
The spirit of commerce is frugality, economy, moderation, labor, ponderance, tranquillity, order, and rule. So long as this spirit subsides, the riches… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
We must begin by acknowledging that there is a complete absence of two things in Indian Society. One of these is equality.… — B. R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the remit of the state. More money gives… — Polly Toynbee Copy Share Image
“Nature teaches us lessons that no book can teach. It teaches us that there is always inequality in life. Just look at… — Mouloud Benzadi Copy Share Image
Schools are the single largest lever of mobility in this country. When we commit to creating and enforcing laws that acknowledge the… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
The essential point here is that all people with small, insecure incomes are in the same boat and ought to be fighting… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Many of the lower middle class are members of labor unions, churches, bowling clubs, fraternal, service, and nationality organizations. They are organizations… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
In the long run men inevitably become the victims of their wealth. They adapt their lives and habits to their money, not… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Prisoners do matter when analyzing the severity of racial inequality in the U.S. Yet because they are out of sight and out… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Income and wealth inequality have reached obscene levels, the threat of climate change is more frightening than ever, and the billionaire class… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Racism is a problem, economic inequality is a problem, not enough rock n' roll on the radio is a problem. But all… — Tom Morello Copy Share Image
White privilege is the unquestioned and unearned set of advantages, entitlements benefits and choices bestowed on people solely because they are white.… — Peggy McIntosh Copy Share Image
We all rely on our infrastructure system even if we don't own a car or use public transportation. It impacts our economy… — Michael Capuano Copy Share Image
“It is our entire culture, the way it runs on money, rewards inhumanity, encourages disconnection and isolation, causes great inequality and suffering,… — Jessa Crispin Copy Share Image
The perennial conviction that those who work hard and play by the rules will be rewarded with a more comfortable present and… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
We have a lot of inequality, and I'm not a one-issue candidate, because I don't think this is a one-issue country. So… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
He [Hugo Chavez] put poverty at the heart of political debate. Rightly so, given the country's immense inequality and poverty. He invested… — Rory Carroll Copy Share Image
“The essence of economic inequality is borne out in a simple fact: there are 400 billionaires in the United States and 45… — Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Copy Share Image
It's an irony that growing inequality could mean more money for philanthropy. In the US, quite a few of the ultra-rich have… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
Destroy it. There may be a redistribution of the land, but the natural inequality of men soon re-creates an inequality of possessions… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
The research points pretty clearly to the rise of companionate marriage, and I just think it's going to keep being popular, for… — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
"But when you hear men talking," said Cornelia, "all they ever do is speak ill of women. 'And I don't quite know… — Moderata Fonte Copy Share Image
The middle class is teetering on the brink of collapse just as surely as AIG was in the fall of 2009 -… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
When the wilderness movement emerged, it emerged separate from the issue of social inequality and the economic problems of survival. It was… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Our outrage at inequality is primal. But primal emotions are not always noble ones. Of course, when I see a colleague receive… — Sendhil Mullainathan Copy Share Image
It might be depressing, but it's also the truth that no one has the power, the money, or the resources to save… — Ashly Lorenzana Copy Share Image
the art of becoming 'rich', in the common sense, is not absolutely nor finally the art of accumulating much money for ourselves,… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Was the earth made to preserve a few covetous, proud men to live at ease, and for them to bag and barn… — Gerrard Winstanley Copy Share Image
The dominant economic approach of the last thirty years is now on its last legs. Letting the market rip and an indifference… — Frances O'Grady Copy Share Image
“We must insist on putting production at the heart of economic analysis. The inequality alarmists take the existence of progress and prosperity… — Don Watkins Copy Share Image
[M]en, though they know full well how much women are worth and how great the benefits we bring them, nonetheless seek to… — Moderata Fonte Copy Share Image
Stopped as attribute of a person, sex inequality takes the form of gender; moving as a relation between people, it takes the… — Catharine MacKinnon Copy Share Image
China is now suffering from poverty, not from unequal distribution of wealth. Where there are inequalities of wealth, the methods of Marx… — Sun Yat-sen Copy Share Image