Inequality Quotes

• As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.

  Nelson Mandela

  Compassion, Our World, Long

  Nelson Mandela's speech in London's Trafalgar Square for the campaign to end poverty in the developing world, news.bbc.co.uk. February 3, 2005.

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  A nation will not survive morally or economically when so few have so much and so many have so little.

  Bernie Sanders

  Economic Inequality, Littles, Nations

  "Commentary: Yes, This Campaign Can Get Even More Spectacular". www.chicagotribune.com. January 22, 2016.

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• No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

  Adam Smith

  Happiness, Equality, Society

  Adam Smith (1827). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.33

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• Inequality is the root of social evil.

  Pope Francis

  Roots, Evil, Social

  Pope Francis‏ @Pontifex, twitter.com. April 28, 2014.

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• The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

  Aristotle

  Philosophical, Equality, Egalitarianism

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• Two wrongs don't make a right.

  Roald Dahl

  Revenge, Humorous, Math

  Roald Dahl (2016). “The GFG: The Guid Freendly Giant: The BFG in Scots”, p.145, Black & White Publishing

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• We've got some great big problems in our world. We have to figure out how to feed 10 billion people. Too many people can't access clean water, quality healthcare, and reasonable education. We have to figure out what to do about climate change, income inequality, and more. Innovators need to rise to the challenge!

  Scott D. Anthony

  Our World, Water, People

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.

  Warren Buffett

  War, Winning, Class

  "In Class Warfare, Guess Which Class Is Winning". New York Times Magazine, www.nytimes.com. November 26, 2006.

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• Inequality hardens society into a class system. Inequality divides us from one another... Inequality undermines democracy.

  George Packer

  Class, Democracy, Divides

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• Inequality is the cause of all local movements.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Math, Movement, Causes

  Leonardo (da Vinci) (1958). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”

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• There can be no peace as long as there is grinding poverty, social injustice, inequality, oppression, environmental degradation, and as long as the weak and small continue to be trodden by the mighty and powerful.

  Dalai Lama

  Powerful, Long, Environmental

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• Today, the top one-tenth of 1% owns nearly as much wealth as the bottom 90%. The economic game is rigged, and this level of inequality is unsustainable. We need an economy that works for all, not just the powerful.

  Bernie Sanders

  Powerful, Games, Needs

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• It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.

  Voltaire

  Real, Dependence, Misfortunes

  "Equality" by Voltaire, 1764.

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• Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.

  Matthew Arnold

  Class, Wealth, Middle

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.816, Delphi Classics

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• All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

  George Orwell

  Funny, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

  Animal Farm ch. 10 (1945) See Bierce 141

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• Rising inequality isn’t about who has the knowledge; it’s about who has the power.

  Paul Krugman

  Rising

  "Knowledge Isn’t Power" by Paul Krugman, www.nytimes.com. February 23, 2015.

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• True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the glorious inequality of talent, of genius.

  Felix Schelling

  Education, Individuality, Genius

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• The truth is that political consciousness in this country is pretty low... To the degree that we can help educate and organize people around the most important issues facing their lives and show that there is support for fundamental changes in the way we do business in the United States of America in terms of income inequality, in terms of low wages, in terms of disastrous trade policies, in terms of being the only major country not to have a national healthcare program - that's success.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, America, Issues

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• In the 21st Century, I'd like to think women have the right to live lives free of both sexual violence and daily harassment, as well as any other form of inequality.

  Laura Bates

  Live Life, Thinking, Violence

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• I think gender inequality is a problem that goes back a long, long time. In human society, as a whole, women have tended to have a kind of inferior position - very often combined with playing up women as great role [models].

  Amartya Sen

  Thinking, Long, Role Models

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Money, Economic Inequality, History

  Second Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1937

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• The scale of global inequality is quite simply staggering.

  Winnie Byanyima

  Scales, Staggering

  "Wealthiest 1% will soon own more than rest of us combined, Oxfam says" by Faith Karimi, www.cnn.com. January 19, 2015.

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• Inequality is bad for everyone, not just the middle class and the poor.

  Robert Reich

  Class, Poor, Middle

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Kings, Health

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• Everyone has an equal right to inequality.

  John Ralston Saul

  Equal

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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