Inequality Quotes - Page 4

• Rising inequality is a cultural and economic cancer on a lot of different levels.

  Kevin Drum

  Cancer, Different, Rising

  "In Which I Respond to My Critics About the Bernie Revolution" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. April 30, 2016.

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• Everywhere there is inequality, everywhere there is division, and I worry about it. I think everybody does.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Thinking, Worry, Doe

  Interview with Benedict Cumberbatch, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 24, 2016.

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• 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 economy more rewarding for more of the people.

  Janet Yellen

  People, Risk, Economy

  "How American Income Inequality Hit Levels Not Seen Since The Depression", www.huffingtonpost.com. October 22, 2010.

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• We cannot live without trade. A society can neither advance nor improve without excess of disposable income. This excess can only be amassed through the production of goods and services necessary or attractive to the mass. A financial system which allows this leads to inequality; one that does not leads to mass starvation.

  David Mamet

  Excess, Doe, Income

  David Mamet (2011). “The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture”, p.8, Penguin

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• The state of inequality between individuals and between nations not only still exists; it is increasing. It still happens that side by side with those who are wealthy and living in plenty there exist those who are living in want, suffering misery and often actually dying of hunger; and their number reaches tens, even hundreds of millions.

  Pope John Paul II

  Economic Inequality, Numbers, Suffering

  Pope John Paul II (1996). “The Encyclicals of John Paul II”, Our Sunday Visitor (IN)

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• There are dangers that globalization increases inequality. There are dangers that because capital is mobile and workers are not, if we are not providing them sufficient protection, that they can be left behind in this process. And that's what we have to focus on.

  Barack Obama

  Focus, Protection, Globalization

  Source: time.com

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• What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.

  B. R. Ambedkar

  Rights, Order, Liberty

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• People differ in capacity, skill, health, strength; and unequal fortune is a necessary result of unequal condition. Such inequality is far from being disadvantageous either to individuals or to the community.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Equality, Skills, People

  Pope Leo XIII (1990). “A Light in the Heavens: Great Encyclical Letters of Pope Leo XIII”, p.149, TAN Books

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• The difference between rich and poor is becoming more extreme, and as income inequality widens the wealth gap in major nations, education, health and social mobility are all threatened.

  Helene D. Gayle

  Differences, Becoming, Income

  "Widening Income Disparities" by Helene D. Gayle, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 21, 2014.

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• Wealth inequality has increased.

  Cornel West

  Wealth, Wealth Inequality

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Inequality may linger in the world of material things, but great music, great literature, great art and the wonders of science are, and should be, open to all.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Art, Literature, World

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.84, Best Books on

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• Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice.

  Nelson Mandela

  Hunger And Poverty, Hunger Poverty, Justice

  Twitter post from Jan 21, 2016

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• Racial inequality is a big problem.

  Hillary Clinton

  Problem, Bigs, Big Problems

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• We have to have a very strong criticism of modes of cooperation that entrench inequality.

  Judith Butler

  Strong, Criticism, Cooperation

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• Political men, like goats, usually thrive best among inequalities.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Men, Political, Goats

  Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.13

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• The past few decades of widening inequality can be summed up as significant income and wealth gains for those at the very top and stagnant living standards for the majority.

  Janet Yellen

  Past, Gains, Majority

  "RPT-UPDATE 2-Citing U.S. values, Yellen says greatly concerned by rise in economic inequality". www.reuters.com. October 17, 2014.

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• It clearly follows that to make men moral it is necessary to make their social environment moral. And that can be done in only one way; by assuring the triumph of justice, that is, the complete liberty of everyone in the most perfect equality for all. Inequality of conditions and rights, and the resulting lack of liberty for all, is the great collective iniquity begetting all individual iniquities.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Men, Rights, Perfect

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• The man of great wealth owes a peculiar obligation to the state because he derives special advantages from the mere existence of government.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Special, Peculiar

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.69, Cornell University Press

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• This kind of gaping inequality gives lie to the promise that’s at the very heart of America: that this is a place where you can make it if you try. We tell people - we tell our kids - that in this country, even if you’re born with nothing, work hard and you can get into the middle class. We tell them that your children will have a chance to do even better than you do. That’s why immigrants from around the world historically have flocked to our shores.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Children, Lying

  Barack Obama's Remarks on the Economy in Osawatomie, Kansas, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. December 6, 2011.

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• Many of the technologies that are now racing ahead most rapidly, replacing human workers in factories and offices with machines, making stockholders richer and workers poorer, are indeed tending to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth.

  Freeman Dyson

  Technology, Office, Racing

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• You can call it institutionalized racism or institutionalized inequality, but what I say is that any system that operates to maintain inequality is a corrupt system and must be addressed.

  Robert D Bullard

  Racism

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Charity is no substitute for justice. If we never challenge a social order that allows some to accumulate wealth--even if they decide to help the less fortunate--while others are short-changed, then even acts of kindness end up supporting unjust arrangements. We must never ignore the injustices that make charity necessary, or the inequalities that make it possible.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Kindness, Order, Justice

  "Come Hell or High Water". Book by Michael Eric Dyson, www.today.com. 2006.

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• Gender inequality is not one problem, it's a collection of problems.

  Amartya Sen

  Problem, Gender, Collections

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Equality, Today, Tomorrow

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• Health and health inequalities tell us a great deal about the good or bad effects of social policies.

  Michael Marmot

  Social, Deals, Policy

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