Consciousness Quote by Edward Snowden

We don't need flowery words about inequality to tell us that, and we don't need a party that has led while poverty and hunger…

— Artur Davis

Income inequality matters more on a day-to-day basis. Wealth matters more for political influence.

— Thomas Pogge

I think inequality has gone past the point where it's helping us all get rich, and it's really becoming a serious threat.

— Angus Deaton

I think that the main issue with inequality is not the gap between the rich and the poor. It is the gap between the…

— Arnold Kling

Inequality saps the economy by draining the buying power of Americans whose incomes have stagnated, forcing them to rely on debt to fund education,…

— George Packer

The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence.…

— Noam Chomsky

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…

— Barack Obama

Rising inequality hasn't really accomplished anything of value for its ostensible beneficiaries, the top one percent. They've all built bigger mansions and staged more…

— Robert H. Frank

American inequality didn't just happen. It was created.

— Joseph Stiglitz

The past few decades of widening inequality can be summed up as significant income and wealth gains for those at the very top and…

— Janet Yellen

Wealth inequality has increased.

— Cornel West

Inequality has risen to the point that it seems to me worthwhile for the U.S. to seriously consider taking the risk of making our…

— Janet Yellen