Inequality Quotes - Page 19

• If you really want to end income inequality, I've got the way to fix it. People who don't work shouldn't get any income.

  Rush Limbaugh

  People, Income, Want

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Bernie Sanders is an impressive guy. His authenticity and his credibility stem precisely from the fact that he has been marginalized from the mainstream political process for decades. He's been in the US Senate, yeah, he has had a life in politics for thirty years, but he's never really been able to get anything done. He's the only socialist in the US Congress. He's not a Democrat or a Republican, but he's always been saying the same things about income inequality, in particular.

  Ted Rall

  Guy, Political, Done

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• You'll also hear about the widening gap in the educated and the uneducated. The liberals will all say, "We must do something about it" and some in our population swoon, "Oh, yes, it's so unfair, and so unfortunate, and we've gotta do something about the inequality." So the Democrats then have their reason to do something about it, and the way they go about it is not trying to make people equal at all. The way they go about it is not even rooted in changing inequality, at the end of the day. The way they go about it is destructive for everybody.

  Rush Limbaugh

  People, The End Of The Day, Trying

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Hillary Clinton, income inequality, it's richest damn woman next to the Kennedy family, and you're trying to tell me she cares about income inequality?

  Joe Biden

  Kennedy Family, Trying, Income

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• All those people who went out [to Occupy Wall Street] missed work, didn't get paid. Those were individuals who were already feeling the effects of inequality, so they didn't have a lot to lose. And then the individuals who were louder, more disruptive and, in many ways, more effective at drawing attention to their concerns were immediately castigated by authorities. They were cordoned off, pepper-sprayed, thrown in jail.

  Edward Snowden

  Wall, Drawing, Jail

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• When it comes to social policies, I believe women have the right to make their own choices, and inequality is a really important issue.

  Edward Snowden

  Believe, Issues, Choices

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• Equality is not possible. The pursuit of equality, however, people really love that. For some reason, people attach the most wonderful of motives to people who say they see all this inequality out there and need to fix it. It's just not fair. You'll hear it manifest itself in discussions about the so-called widening gap between the rich and the poor or the widening gap between men and women. It's like actually two twin beds.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Men, Two, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The American people have to think hard about their definition of the meaning of the good life, that hedonistic, materialistic society of high levels of consumption, increasing social inequality is not a society that can be part of the solution of the world's problems.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Good Life, Thinking, People

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• The church is an organisation that institutionalises an aversion to homosexuality, it institutionalises gender inequality and it speaks from a place of teaching people being ashamed of their sexuality.

  Hozier

  Teaching, People, Church

  Source: www.kaltblut-magazine.com

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• The Mexican people are increasingly middle class, and Mexico has substantially become a middle-class society. This is true despite the significant poverty, and the class and geographic inequality that have deep historical roots.

  Alan Bersin

  Class, Roots, People

  Source: www.salon.com

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• Becoming involved in sports and traveling the world and seeing how people of color were treated around the world, and America being such a great nation, probably the greatest nation in the world, I think that the thing that would destroy this nation more than anything is the inequality that we have amongst people of color.

  John Carlos

  Sports, Thinking, Color

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I made an effort to ensure social safeguards. But our economy has to grow - and Chile, with a population of 17 million, cannot depend entirely on its domestic market. Which is why the decision to focus on exports, made at the beginning of the democratic era, was the correct one. We are continuing to do so. For a long time, Chile has been successful in combating poverty. But now we must focus more on fighting inequality.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Fighting, Successful, Long

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The 1970s were the height of social mobility. College was accessible. My grandfather was a poor immigrant who went to a public school in Ohio, and my father went to Harvard. That wasn't unusual. There was a feeling that anything was possible and you didn't have to be born into money to have a successful life. Now, people don't believe in the idea that anything is possible. We have more inequality than we've had ever before and a greater concentration of wealth in the hands of a few.

  Lauren Greenfield

  Father, Believe, School

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• At a time when the European project is facing challenges, it's especially important to show the benefits of economic integration by continuing to invest in our people and working to reduce inequality, both within and across our countries.

  Barack Obama

  Country, People, Challenges

  "Read President Obama's Comments Urging Donald Trump to Stand Up to Russia". time.com. November 17, 2016.

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• That's an important Obama accomplishment: he raised taxes back to Bill Clinton levels, and made a major dent in inequality doing so. That's certain to be reversed, that's going to disappear. The Republicans are going to slash the rich's taxes.

  Jonathan Chait

  Accomplishment, Important, Bills

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• There are two economic realities in America today. There's been a record six straight years of job growth, and new census numbers show incomes have increased at a record rate after years of stagnation. However, income inequality remains significant, and nearly half of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck.

  Lester Holt

  Jobs, Reality, Years

  The First 2016 Presidential Debate Between Trump, Clinton, www.nbcnews.com. September 27, 2016.

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• People at the top spend less money than those at the bottom so when you have redistribution toward the top, aggregate demand goes down. Unless you intervene, you're going to have a weak economy unless something else happens. That something else could be a bubble. The United States tried a tech bubble and a housing bubble, but those were not sustainable answers. So I view inequality as a fundamental part of our macroeconomic weakness.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  People, Weakness, Economy

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The sentiment that is very inappropriately named equality is fresh, strong, alert, precisely because it is not, in fact, a sentiment of equality and is not related to any abstraction, as a few naive "intellectuals" still believe; but because it is related to the direct interests of individuals who are bent on escaping certain inequalities not in their favour, and setting up new inequalities that will be in their favour, this latter being their chief concern.

  Vilfredo Pareto

  Strong, Believe, Escaping

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• I've been reading about and writing about the Civil War period and it is so striking that slavery was never made right - [Abraham] Lincoln was killed, Reconstruction came along, and all of that inequity was frozen in place and carried forward rather smugly. So I think the burden is now upon us white people, to say that this systemic inequality offends us.

  George Saunders

  War, Reading, Writing

  "George Saunders on Trump, Mystery, and Why He Rejects Social Media". Interview with Catherine Woodiwiss, sojo.net. August 30, 2016.

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• I think the stress on income inequality is something that every American should take seriously.

  Hillary Clinton

  Stress, Thinking, Income

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I think the stress on income inequality is something that every American should take seriously, we have got to figure out how we're going to provide more economic opportunity - good jobs with rising incomes - and I'm excited to work with Senator Sanders in doing that.

  Hillary Clinton

  Jobs, Stress, Opportunity

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Employers able to work together with workers and sharing gains and profits will lead to a much better world, getting away from income inequality.

  Dolores Huerta

  Working Together, Income, World

  "We Need To Keep Ringing the Bell". Interview with David Kupfer, progressive.org. August 20, 2016.

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• I think that why the research and the data are so important is because you become so used to seeing the world one way that you don't even notice anymore. [Gender inequality] has this invisibility.

  Emma Watson

  Thinking, Data, Important

  Interview with Geena Davis, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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• Capitalism is a system that's ultimately predicated on and depends on some form of inequality. Feminism has always intersected with capitalism in terms of women's labor and gendered divisions of labor.

  Andi Zeisler

  Feminism, Term, Labor

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I feel that rich women are soft targets.... There's a lot of legitimate resentment and anger about inequality in our culture, about money... I feel like a lot of the anger about income disparity is aimed not at wealthy men, but at wealthy women.

  Wednesday Martin

  Men, Culture, Rich

  Source: www.glamour.com

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