Inequality Quotes

374 Inequality quotes by 275 unique authors

This is why moral uneasiness is destined to become even more acute. It is obvious that a fundamental defect, or rather a series of defects,… — Pope John Paul II
This kind of inequality - a level we haven't seen since the Great Depression - hurts us all. When middle-class families can no longer afford… — Barack Obama
By some estimates, income and wealth inequality are near their highest levels in the past hundred years, much higher than the average during that time… — Janet Yellen
After adjusting for inflation, the average income of the top 5% of households grew by 38% from 1989 to 2013. Â…By comparison, the average real… — Janet Yellen
The distribution of wealth is even more unequal than that of income. ...The wealthiest 5% of American households held 54% of all wealth reported in… — Janet Yellen
The lower half of households by wealth held just 3% of wealth in 1989 and only 1% in 2013. — Janet Yellen
The average net worth of the lower half of the distribution, representing 62 million households, was $11,000 in 2013. About one-fourth of these families reported… — Janet Yellen
I will always have enough money to last the rest of my life...as long as I don't buy anything. — Ed Asner
Strong, responsible unions are essential to industrial fair play. Without them the labor bargain is wholly one-sided. The parties to the labor contract must be… — Louis D. Brandeis
You may be sure that in this new international system, the American citizen will count for precious little. — Pat Buchanan
Every dollar that the boss did not work for, one of us worked for a dollar and didn't get it. — William C. Dudley
In our society it is murder, psychologically, to deprive a man of a job or an income. You are in substance saying to that man… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Everyone has a right to a job, everyone has a right to an education, everyone has a right to health care, everyone has a right… — Dennis Kucinich
God, how patient are Thy poor! These corporations and masters of manipulation in finance heaping up great fortunes by a system of legalized extortion, and… — Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
The balancing of the budget will not in itself place a teaspoonful of milk in a hungry baby's stomach, or remove the rags from its… — John L. Lewis
A Society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure and to another all the burdens of work condemns both classes to spiritual… — Lewis Mumford
The essential point here is that all people with small, insecure incomes are in the same boat and ought to be fighting on the same… — George Orwell
If we will not endure a king as a political power, we should not endure a king over the production, transportation, and sale of any… — John Sherman
Thievery is what unregulated capitalism is all about. — Robert Sherrill
The ultimate goal of those who blame workers for Wall Street's economic crisis is to unravel the fabric of our common life in pursuit of… — Richard Trumka
People who have to fight for their living and are not afraid to die for it are higher persons than those who, stationed high, are… — Laozi
Inequality also distorts our democracy. It gives an outsized voice to the few who can afford high-priced lobbyists and unlimited campaign contributions, and runs the… — Barack Obama
More fundamentally, this kind of gaping inequality gives lie to the promise at the very heart of America: that this is the place where you… — Barack Obama
This happens today: if the investments in the banks fall slightly... a tragedy... what can be done? But if people die of hunger, if they… — Pope Francis
Let us remember well, however, that whenever food is thrown out it is as if it were stolen from the table of the poor, from… — Pope Francis

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