Inequality Quotes - Page 6

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  An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

  Plutarch

  Freedom, Tyrants, Economic Inequality

  "When Inequality Isn't" by John Mauldin, www.forbes.com. March 29, 2014.

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• However energetically society in general may strive to make all the citizens equal and alike, the personal pride of each individual will always make him try to escape from the common level, and he will form some inequality somewhere to his own profit.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Pride, Equality, Trying

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

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• The higher the coefficient of inequality (Gini coefficient) in a society, the worse things tend to be for those at the bottom.

  Catherine Wilson

  Higher, Bottom

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The concern that I have is that, as wealth continues to concentrate in the hands of a few, economic inequality grows, and power also becomes more unequal.

  Jane Mayer

  Hands, Economic Inequality, Wealth

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior of those who are not, so long he is the repository of power.

  James F. Cooper

  Government, Long, Office

  "The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Book by James F. Cooper, 1838.

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• I believe that if you want to fight inequality you have to do it starting at infancy.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Believe, Fighting, Want

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• Diversity on the bench is critical. As practitioners, you need judges who 'get it!' We need judges who understand what discrimination feels like. We need judges who understand what inequality feels like. We need judges who understand the subtleties of unfair treatment and who are willing to call it out when they see it!

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz

  Judging, Diversity, Needs

  "Stereotyping and Prejudice". Book editing by Charles Stangor, Christian S. Crandall, July 24, 2013.

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• The great biblical tradition enjoins on all peoples the duty to hear the voice of the poor.  It bids us break the bonds of injustice and oppression which give rise to glaring, and indeed scandalous, social inequalities.

  Pope Francis

  Biblical, Voice, Giving

  "Pope Tells Philippines Leaders To End Corruption, Hear Cries Of The Poor" by Philip Pullella and Manuel Mogato, www.businessinsider.com. January 15, 2015.

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• The humanity of all Americans is diminished when any group is denied rights granted to others.

  Julian Bond

  Rights, Humanity, Groups

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• To every woman who gave birth, to every citizen and taxpayer, it's our time to have wage equality once and for all and equal rights for women of the United States of America!

  Patricia Arquette

  Equality, Rights, America

  Patricia Arquette's Academy Awards Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. February 22, 2015.

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• We need to start talking about inequality again; we need to start talking about the inequities and unfairnesses and the injustices of an excessively divided society, divided by wealth, by opportunity, by outcome, by assets and so forth.

  Tony Judt

  Opportunity, Talking, Needs

  "Tony Judt: 'I am not pessimistic in the very long run'". Interview With Stephen Foley, www.independent.co.uk. March 24, 2010.

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• The subjects of every state ought to contribute toward the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state ....As Henry Home (Lord Kames) has written, a goal of taxation should be to 'remedy inequality of riches as much as possible, by relieving the poor and burdening the rich.'

  Adam Smith

  Home, Government, Goal

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• In the long run men inevitably become the victims of their wealth. They adapt their lives and habits to their money, not their money to their lives. It preoccupies their thoughts, creates artificial needs, and draws a curtain between them and the world.

  Herbert Croly

  Running, Men, Long

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• Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is exploitation of the strong by the weak.

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Strong, Communism, Weak

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (2011). “Property is Theft!: A Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Anthology”, p.132, AK Press

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• Economics is sometimes associated with the study and defense of selfishness and material inequality, but it has an egalitarian and civil libertarian core that should be celebrated.

  Tyler Cowen

  Selfishness, Defense, Libertarian

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• Inequality and hierarchy are natural, but that doesn't mean they are right, that doesn't mean there is isn't a productive tension between those forces and the forces of equality.

  Chris Hayes

  Mean, Hierarchy, Natural

  "The age of illusion". Interview with Jake Blumgart, www.origin.salon.com. June 30, 2012.

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• Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men?

  Dorothy Thompson

  Home, Equality, Men

  Dorothy Thompson (1939). “Let the Record Speak”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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• Just as the commandment 'Thou shalt not kill' sets a clear limit in order to safeguard the value of human life, today we also have to say 'thou shalt not' to an economy of exclusion and inequality. Such an economy kills. How can it be that it is not a news item when an elderly homeless person dies of exposure, but it is news when the stock market loses two points?

  Pope Francis

  Elderly, Order, Two

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.21, BookBaby

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• There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.

  John F. Kennedy

  Life, Country, War

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• We are here because we share a fundamental belief: that poverty, illiteracy, disease and inequality do not belong in the twenty-first century. We share a common purpose: to eradicate these ills for the benefit of all. And we share a common tool to achieve this: the Millennium Development Goals.

  Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

  Common Purpose, Goal, Firsts

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• Racial inequality has gotten worse in the last years because any time you have a moribund economy, the people who historically have had more problems getting jobs have suffered. And that, I think, is triggering a lot of the animosity.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Jobs, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Inequality of any kind, once considered a normal, natural part of human existence, came to be seen in the course of the twentieth century as increasingly illegitimate.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  Normal, Kind, Natural

  Michael Mandelbaum (2009). “The Case for Goliath: How America Acts As the World's Government in the Twenty-First Century”, p.9, PublicAffairs

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• The engine of growth is also the engine of inequality.

  T. J. Stiles

  Growth, Engines

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• In the US a child born into a poor family will become a poor adult. The american dream is just that - it is not true, because of the level of extreme inequality.

  Winnie Byanyima

  Inspiring, Dream, Children

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• Trickle down economics is a fraud. Giving tax breaks to the rich and large corporations does not create jobs. It simply makes the rich richer, enlarges the deficit and increases income and wealth inequality. We need economic policies which benefit working families, not the billionaire class.

  Bernie Sanders

  Jobs, Class, Giving

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