Inequality Quotes
Inequality Quote of the day
A nation will not survive morally or economically when so few have so much and so many have so little.
I believe that virtually all the problems in the world come from inequality of one kind or another.
As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.
I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.
I know that there are no limits to which the powers of privilege will not go to keep the workers in slavery
There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.
All men, among themselves, are by nature equal. The inequality we now discern hath its spring from the civil law.
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.
Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.
We can not have equilibrium in this world with the current inequality and destruction of Mother Earth. Capitalism is what is causing this problem and it needs to end.
Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Gender equality, historically has been predominantly a women's movement for women. But I think the impact of gender inequality and how it's affecting men hasn't really been addressed.
If our goal is to slow migration, then the best way to do so is to work for a more equitable global system. But slowing migration is an odd goal, if the real problem is global inequality.
The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.
When fewer workers have unions, the standard of living falls for everyone and the gap between the rich and poor grows.
True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the glorious inequality of talent, of genius.
Diversity there certainly is in the world, but it means neither inequality nor untouchability.
Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
If you're just the person with power, exercising that power fearfully and angrily, you're going to be an operative of injustice and inequality.
What good does it do to sit at the counter when you cannot afford a hamburger?
Lynching is an important aspect of racial history and racial inequality in America, because it was visible, it was so public, it was so dramatic, and it was so violent.
The days of humiliation, of second-class citizens and of inequality are over and gone forever.
Health inequalities and the social determinants of health are not a footnote to the determinants of health. They are the main issue.
Marriage ... is still the imperfect institution it must remain while women continue to be ill-educated, passive, and subservient.
It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.
It's important to realize that innovation and growth in itself are not sufficient to moderate inequality of wealth.
For me, being leftist means fighting against injustice and inequality but, most of all, we want to live well.
It is the poverty connected with our species which subordinates one man to another. It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that creates huge inequalities.
You have to be interested in inequality. The issue of inequality and that of poverty are not separable.
If we will not endure a king as a political power, we should not endure a king over the production, transportation, and sale of any of the necessaries of life.
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.
The balancing of the budget will not in itself place a teaspoonful of milk in a hungry baby's stomach, or remove the rags from its mother's back.
Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.
The causes which destroyed the ancient republics were numerous; but in Rome, one principal cause was the vast inequality of fortunes.
A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.
Strike not for a few cents more an hour, because the price of living will be raised faster still, but strike for all you earn, be content with nothing less.