Top 875 Inequality Quotes & Sayings - Page 4
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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
No sustainable development, environmental harmony or lasting security will happen if we are unable to eradicate hunger and extreme inequality
That's part of American greatness, is discrimination. Yes, sir. Inequality, I think, breeds freedom and gives a man opportunity.
As long as inequality and other social problems plague us, populists will try to exploit them.
Not only does the UK have the highest levels of regional inequality among the major economies, the imbalance is widening, not narrowing.
Inequality is not the same thing as unfairness; and, to my mind, it is the latter that has incited so much political turmoil in the rich world today.
We've seen the weakest economic recovery since World War II, and massive levels of inequality and debt.
The problems of the world, from immigration to populism to income inequality to sustainability to peacekeeping, require a well-functioning supranational body.
As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.
Americans swept away the instruments of English hereditary inequality - entails and titles of nobility - even before we had a constitution.
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.
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.
Wishy-washy equivocations - and not just on abortion, but on immigration, on civil rights, on income inequality - weaken all of us.
If the Internet is worth its salt, it has to help arrest the forces that promote inequality, monopoly, hypercommercialism, corruption, depoliticization and stagnation.
Today, the United States is No. 1 in corporate profits, No. 1 in CEO salaries, No. 1 in childhood poverty and No. 1 in income and wealth inequality in the industrialized world.
Everything in America is so stratified by class now. We have the 93rd level of income inequality in the world. You're already seeing highway lanes that are for pay and ones that aren't.
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.
Bombay is the ideal microcosm of India, of that whole sense of inequality where you could have the biggest skyscrapers next to the poorest slums.
We're all burdened by our history of racial inequality. It's created a kind of smog that we all breathe in, and it has prevented us from being healthy.
Ending educational inequality is going to require systemic change and a long-term, sustained effort. There are no shortcuts and no silver bullets.
I care about waking up to the true issues of the 21st century: inequality, diversity, and the impact of tech.
Early investment in the lives of disadvantaged children will help reduce inequality, in both the short and the long run.
Even after facing jail, Martin Luther King, Jr. courageously and boldly spoke out against racial inequality.
Custom is the great leveller. It corrects the inequality of fortune by lessening equally the pleasures of the prince and the pains of the peasant.
We are dealing with the greater challenges of globalisation. It is generating, in many cases, an increase in the levels of inequality in societies... that is undesirable.
The default of our society is the reproduction of racial inequality. I mean, that's what it does; that's what it's been doing for hundreds of years.
For me, being leftist means fighting against injustice and inequality but, most of all, we want to live well.
Massive inequality, we have learned, isn't the best way to run an economy after all. And when you think about it, it's also profoundly ugly.
I decided that I wanted to spend my career fighting inequality rather than making myself more comfortable.
When it comes to social policies, I believe women have the right to make their own choices, and inequality is a really important issue.
I've been talking about things like reversing the rise of inequality and strengthening social
mobility,since before it was cool.
I think inequality has gone past the point where it's helping us all get rich, and it's really becoming a serious threat.
No matter how we name and dissect inequality, we must keep explaining the larger downside of such concentrated extreme wealth.
Economic inequality is systemic, and one of the most effective barriers is ignorance about how money works beyond the basics.
Protecting space for civil society and citizenry is particularly critical in a world marked by rising political and economic inequality.
It's much more acceptable for men to work and father kids. There's an inherent inequality, because we want to do it all, and I don't know how we can do this all.
I think that on the Democratic side, Bernie Sanders talks about income inequality and poverty alleviation, and those issues are so important.
The key to understanding the rise in inequality isn't technology or globalization. It's the power of the moneyed interests to shape the underlying rules of the market.
We need to have a conversation about the fact that black faces are not as visible as they should be, that there is huge inequality everywhere in terms of race.
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.
Inequality within the deaf and hard of hearing community is something I feel really passionate about and always will do.
We need to see the FLSA and the minimum wage as part of a larger struggle to cut poverty and to address the challenge of income inequality.
The term 'income inequality' is a bit misleading because it suggests in a somewhat pejorative way that the rich are getting richer at the expense of the poor.
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.
All men, among themselves, are by nature equal. The inequality we now discern hath its spring from the civil law.
Increases in interest rates normally worsen inequality, at least partly by reducing employment and wage growth.
Inequality causes problems by creating fissures in societies, leaving those at the bottom feeling marginalized or disenfranchised.
Income inequality and wage stagnation finally took their place among the principal moral issues of our time.
We've done a very poor job at really reflecting on our legacy of racial inequality... You see it in the South, but it's everywhere.
We want our children to live in an America that isn't burdened by debt, that isn't weakened by inequality, that isn't threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet.
Education is not the only answer and it's certainly not the immediate solution. At best, it's a necessary, but not sufficient response to widening inequality.
Government sponsors untold waste, criminality and inequality in every sphere of life it touches, giving little or nothing in return.
The devastation of neoliberalism is so multi-fold, whether it's violence against women or desperate economic inequality or the destruction of the planet.
You have to let the market reward effort and skill. But a system in which inequality of incomes constantly increases over time is worrisome.
The causes which destroyed the ancient republics were numerous; but in Rome, one principal cause was the vast inequality of fortunes.
I hate a style, as I do a garden, that is wholly flat and regular; that slides along like an eel, and never rises to what one can call an inequality.
I have learnt a lot about the challenges children face - poverty, inequality and their difficulties in accessing basic services.
The U.S. has some of the most significant income inequality in the developed world, yet people seem routinely to underestimate that fact.
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.
We must acknowledge that issues like systemic racism, economic inequality, and the achievement gap are the result of manmade policies.
Income inequality has made having kids, much like getting a quality college education, a rich person's privilege.
