Quote by John Brooks

“All around us we see a level of individual wealth unequaled since the early years of the 20th century.”

— Tony Judt

“Borders are the single biggest cause of discrimination in all of world history. Inequality gaps between people living in the same country are nothing…

— Rutger Bregman

“Equality works. Extreme inequality does not. Out of the grotesque opportunism that we’ve seen among owners of great wealth in the past ten years…

— David Cay Johnston

“The problem is that rich are getting richer by not giving and poor and getting poorer by not receiving.”

— Santosh Kalwar

I agree that income disparity is the great issue of our time. It is even broader and more difficult than the civil rights issues…

— Eleanor Holmes Norton

“You see, it is my passionately held belief that the right to possess property is at best a contingent one. When disparities become too…

— Mohsin Hamid

“You see, it is my passionately held belief that the right to possess property is at best a contingent one When disparities become too…

— Mohsin Hamid

“...you suffer the rich to do as they wish and hold the less fortunate to a higher standard. Tis unfair and tis the dirty…

— Erica Eisdorfer

The greatest discrimination in the world now is against poor people.

— Jimmy Carter

“The meritocratic society has given way to a hereditary meritocracy. The children of the rich are overwhelmingly likely to stay rich.”

— Edward Luce

“The Realistic Vision acknowledges that people vary widely both physically and intellectually—in large part because of natural inherited differences—and therefore will rise (or fall)…

— Michael Shermer

“One percent of the nation owns a third of the wealth. The rest of the wealth is distributed in such a way as to…

— Howard Zinn