The growing gap between rich and poor, the seeming lack of concern for the health and well-being of ordinary people, the obscene… — Joan Wallach Scott Copy Share Image
The guarantee of equal protection cannot mean one thing when applied to one individual and something else when applied to a person… — Lewis F. Powell, Jr Copy Share Image
There is far too little discussion in Washington about the collapse of the middle class , almost no discussion at all about… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
There has been inequality for so long, and now that someone like Trump is in charge, we're face to face with how… — Ruth Wilson Copy Share Image
I don't think that we should have billionaires because, frankly, it is so much money in a moment of such inequality, and… — Zohran Mamdani Copy Share Image
There is greater income inequality in the United States than in any other industrialized country. Yes, the debt is a problem that… — Jan Schakowsky Copy Share Image
“The economic consequences of these policies have been the same just about everywhere, and exactly what one would expect: a massive increase… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The same way I'm not afraid of calling out systemic discrimination, I'm also not afraid of calling out inequality and the fact… — Jagmeet Singh Copy Share Image
Bearing in mind most companies rely on the middle classes in developed countries to sell goods and services throughout the value chain,… — Richard Quest Copy Share Image
If the economists are arguing as to whether we need to cut or stimulate, because they're completely opposite policies, and they can't… — Michael Marmot Copy Share Image
...these things become the norm: that some homeless people die of cold on the streets is not news. In contrast, a ten… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Why certain political classes want purposefully to keep Americans in a state of perpetual debt and uncertainty and why certain people don't… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
We know that communism is the right hypothesis. All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
Being attentive to inequality and not tone deaf to it. But offering prescriptions that are actually going to help folks in communities… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
America is a great country. It has many shortcomings, many social inequalities, and it's tragic that the problem of the blacks wasn't… — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
[W]hen I see men callously and cheerfully denying women the full use of their bodies, while insisting with sobs and howls on… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
And what is the Republican solution to these outrageous [racial] inequalities? There isn't one. And that's the point. Denying racism is the… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
We have to deal with issues like inequality, we have deal with issues of economic dislocation, we have to deal with peoples… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
As long as the problems of the poor are not radically resolved by rejecting the absolute autonomy of markets and financial speculation… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I am conscious that an equal division of property is impracticable, but the consequences of this enormous inequality producing so much misery… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Today's neoliberalism has a number of byproducts. We have massive forms of inequality developing because there are no longer any concessions. There's… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
There is, in fact, a manly and lawful passion for equality which excites men to wish all to be powerful and honored.… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Global poverty is a complex web of interlinked problems. There is no one 'silver bullet' that will solve global inequality. Multiple contributing… — Adam Braun Copy Share Image
And it also became clear that these conditions of inequality and historical injustice have given rise to a feeling of hate in… — Ulrich Beck Copy Share Image
On inequality, I contend that far too much of the nation's wealth and income is gravitating to too few. This undermines the… — James Stone Copy Share Image
“Perhaps if you don't know there's a gap, you don't worry about it. If you were a millipede, a tshongololo , crawling… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Occupy did something fabulous. What Occupy made clear was that there is an inequality at the heart of American democracy that undermines… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I believe that education is the civil rights issue of our generation. And if you care about promoting opportunity and reducing inequality,… — Arne Duncan Copy Share Image
Most of the problem I see amongst friends and I've experienced amongst myself is when people haven't accommodated the inequality that they… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
One of the things I really worry about is that if you don't see middle class wage growth, if you don't see… — James Vance Copy Share Image
Go back to - my first campaign for the United States Senate. I got a bunch of people now talking about inequality.… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Charity is no substitute for justice. If we never challenge a social order that allows some to accumulate wealth--even if they decide… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
A woman's work, from the time she gets up to the time she goes to bed, is as hard as a day… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
Nature eschews regular lines; she does not shape her lines by a common model. Not one of Eve's numerous progeny in all… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
The state of inequality between individuals and between nations not only still exists; it is increasing. It still happens that side by… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
All of my life and particularly throughout of my public career, I have been talking about the feminization of poverty. And one… — Letitia James Copy Share Image
Historically marginalized populations have already had less access to wealth and credit building opportunities, and the continued use of credit histories to… — Rashida Tlaib Copy Share Image
Depression is a serious problem, but drugs are not the answer. In the long run, psychotherapy is both cheaper and more effective,… — Irving Kirsch Copy Share Image
That's an important Obama accomplishment: he raised taxes back to Bill Clinton levels, and made a major dent in inequality doing so.… — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image