Inequality Quotes - Page 23

• Regardless of how you interpret the facts, you have to come to the conclusion that inequality is widening in the US and in almost every other country.

  Robert Reich

  Country, Facts, Conclusion

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• We work harder and we earn less. Income inequality is at the highest point in over a century. While American capitalism never guaranteed success, it did guarantee opportunity, for too many, the dream of economic mobility has been replaced with a nightmare of economic stagnation.

  Mario Cuomo

  Success, Dream, Hard Work

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• You can't solve a problem as complex as inequality in one legal clause.

  Theresa May

  Problem, Clauses, Solve

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The only inequalities that matter begin in the mind. It is not income levels but differences in mental equipment that keep people apart, breed feelings of inferiority.

  Jacquetta Hawkes

  Women, Differences, People

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• [W]hen I see men callously and cheerfully denying women the full use of their bodies, while insisting with sobs and howls on the satisfaction of their own, I simply can't find it heroic, or kind, or anything but pretty rotten and feeble.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Men, Use, Rotten

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• If our economy of freedom fails to distribute wealth as ably as it has created it, the road to dictatorship will be open to any man who can persuasively promise security to all.

  Will Durant

  Men, Promise, Revolution

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (2012). “The Lessons of History”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• A tight-money policy reinforces inequality in two ways. Its high interest rates disproportionately reward the rich, and the resulting unemployment disproportionately punishes the poor.

  Linda McQuaig

  Two, Rewards, Way

  Linda McQuaig (1996). “Shooting the hippo: death by deficit and other Canadian myths”

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• The deep inequalities that persist are visible reminders of the effects of apartheid and colonialism. Until these scars are healed, the vision of our Constitution will not have been achieved.

  Kate O'Regan

  Vision, Colonialism, Poverty

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• The form of law which I propose would be as follows: In a state which is desirous of being saved from the greatest of all plagues-not faction, but rather distraction-there should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor, again, excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil . . . Now the legislator should determine what is to be the limit of poverty or of wealth.

  Plato

  Law, Evil, Would Be

  Plato (1872). “Laws. Appendix: Lesser Hippias. First Alcibiades. Menexenus. Index of persons and places”, p.269

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• For me, being leftist means fighting against injustice and inequality but, most of all, we want to live well.

  Evo Morales

  Mean, Fighting, Want

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• In life you may be poor or rich, but death is the great equalizer. The greatest communism is in death. Howsoever you live, it makes no difference; death happens equally. In life, equality is impossible; in death, inequality is impossible. Become aware of it, contemplate it.

  Rajneesh

  Death, Differences, May

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• The silent colossal National Lie that is the support and confederate of all the tyrannies and shams and inequalities and unfairnesses that afflict the peoples — that is the one to throw bricks and sermons at.

  Mark Twain

  Lying, Support, Bricks

  Mark Twain (2000). “The Jumping Frog: And 18 Other Stories”, p.101, Book Tree

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• I put everything I had into it - all my feelings and everything I'd learned in 46 years of living, about family life and fathers and children. And my feelings about racial justice and inequality and opportunity.

  Gregory Peck

  Children, Father, Opportunity

  On his role as Atticus Finch in "To Kill a Mockingbird". "Oscar-Winner Gregory Peck Dies at Age 87", usatoday30.usatoday.com. June 12, 2003.

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• I remember becoming aware of women's issues and inequality. It became glaringly clear to me when I was living in America that women are regarded as less intelligent than men.

  Julie Christie

  Intelligent, Men, America

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• They talk about income inequality. I’m for income inequality.

  Rick Santorum

  Income, Income Inequality

  "Rick Santorum: ‘I Have No Problem With Income Inequality’" by Luke Johnson, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 20, 2011.

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• Love is based on inequality as friendship is on equality.

  William Butler Yeats

  Love, Love Is

  William Butler Yeats (2008). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. XII: John Sherman and Dhoya”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• The lack of health care coverage has remained very important to me during my time in Congress and as a member of the House Subcommittee on Health, I am working hard with my colleagues to correct these inequalities.

  Paul Gillmor

  Work, House, Important

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• At the heart of the problem is the fact that the United States is a racially divided nation where extreme racial inequalities continue to persist.

  Robert D Bullard

  Heart, Racism, Facts

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• As of today, we do not need expert reports by the authoritative analytical institutions to realise that the reasons for such a situation in our community lie in global inequality, poverty and illiteracy.

  Nursultan Nazarbayev

  Lying, Community, Experts

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• It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Men, Differences, Giving

  "Democracy in America". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville, Volume II. Book Three, Chapter XVIII, 1840.

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• Egalitarians create the most dangerous inequality of all - inequality of power. Allowing politicians to determine what all other human beings will be allowed to earn is one of the most reckless gambles imaginable. Like the income tax, it may start off being applied only to the rich but it will inevitably reach us all.

  Thomas Sowell

  Income, May, Rich

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays”, p.332, Hoover Press

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• If you are not the victim, don't examine it entirely from your point of view because when YOU'RE not the victim, it becomes pretty easy to rationalize and excuse cruelty, injustice, inequality, slavery, and even murder. But when you're the victim, things look a lot differently from that angle.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Views, Looks, Slavery

  Speech to the students of the Georgia Institute of Technology, Summer 2010.

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• Forty-two years after Dr. King was murdered, we are still a nation of inequality. People of color, women, gays, lesbians, and others are still treated as second-class citizens. Yes, things have changed but we have still not achieved equality among all humans. And nonhuman animals continue to be chattel property without any inherent value.

  Gary L. Francione

  Kings, Gay, Animal

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• The great religious ages were notable for their indifference to human rights... not only for acquiescence in poverty, inequality, exploitation and oppression, but also for enthusiastic justifications for slavery, persecution, abandonment of small children, torture, and genocide... Moreover, religion enshrined hierarchy, authority, and inequality... It was the age of equality that brought about the disappearance of such religious appurtenances as the auto-da-fe and burning at the stake.

  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

  Religious, Children, Rights

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• To live in a culture in which women are routinely naked where men aren't is to learn inequality in little ways all day long. So even if we agree that sexual imagery is in fact a language, it is clearly one that is already heavily edited to protect men's sexual - and hence social - confidence while undermining that of women.

  Naomi Wolf

  Men, Long, Culture

  "The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women". Book by Naomi Wolf, October 24, 1991.

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