Top 875 Inequality Quotes & Sayings - Page 5
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Last updated on April 21, 2025.
I have truly never been honest outside of the home in regards to racism and inequality and what I've been subject to.
My advice to everybody would be to go out as much as possible and deal with social inequality and environmental degradation because these issues are increasingly prescient.
Government mitigates the inequality of power, and makes an innocent man, though of the lowest rank, a match for the mightiest of his fellow-subjects.
Probably the most extreme form of inequality is between people who are alive and people who are dead.
When we are honest, we admit how agreeable it can feel to be singled out for favored treatment. The biggest barrier to equality for all is that inequality for some feels good.
If we don't rebuild that connection with people we will really find even bigger gaps, because our gap on inequality is not just economic.
Everywhere there is inequality, everywhere there is division, and I worry about it. I think everybody does.
Until we fix the deep-rooted problems of economic inequality, we cannot expect young people to experience the best childhood and adolescence.
As a socially conscious person, I have my views on matters like gender inequality and progressive movements. But being a mother, children's issues have affected me a lot.
I see three forces militating in favor of growing inequality: increasing measurement of worker value added, automation through smart software, and globalization.
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.
When you don't have equality of opportunity because you don't have equal access to education, it just seems so outrageous. It weakens our economy and leads to more inequality.
Inequality is a terrible waste of time, a waste of people's resources.
At the core of conservative social policy about race are old ideas that link racial inequality to non-traditional family formation and its attendant culture of poverty.
When humans invented inequality and socioeconomic status, they came up with a dominance hierarchy that subordinates like nothing the primate world has ever seen before.
I watched my parents act as completely equal partners in their relationship, and as a son to a woman I respect immensely, I never thought of gender inequality as a child.
Success breeds inequality, and you don't want to choke off success.
I think that why the research and the data are so important is because you become so used to seeing the world one way that you don't even notice anymore. [Gender inequality] has this invisibility.
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.
There is so much inequality and injustice in America, and COVID-19 has exposed that even more. We have to really understand that this is a wake up call; this is a time of action.
I don't just have the patriarchy to compete with. I have systemic racism and white supremacy and inequality to compete with.
Inequality of women concerns both India and France, though it might have different manifestations in both the countries.
A century after some women first got the vote, we are upping the pressure for change to consign Parliament's legacy of inequality in the past.
Democrats deserve credit for engaging with big issues such as climate change and income inequality and coming up with bold, imaginative solutions.
The Savior has suffered not just for our iniquities but also for the inequality, the unfairness, the pain, the anguish, and the emotional distresses that so frequently beset us.
Growing inequality is exacerbated by the companies who simply treat workers as commodities, and our governments are cowered by their demands to perpetuate this model of greed.
I think the issue of income and wealth inequality is in fact a moral issue.
I am focused on building a stronger Canada, a country where we tackle growing inequality, where we unlock the full potential of our citizens and where no one is left behind.
Historic inequality continues to cast a long shadow on more than just law enforcement. It affects everything from housing to employment to transportation.
The weak economy, widening income inequality, gridlock in Congress and a presidential election: Those were perhaps the dominant economic and political themes of 2012.
If the impoverishment and community fragmentation continue, it is not a stretch to predict urban wars sparked by inequality, unemployment, and the breakdown of dialogue between leaders and citizens.
There are four headwinds that are just hitting the American economy in the face: They're demographics, education, debt and inequality. They're powerful enough to cut growth in half.
We will fiercely challenge those forces within the education establishment who impede innovation in our schools and who protect and defend inequality and institutional failure.
It's well proven that if you have equality in society, society flourishes, and if you have inequality, it doesn't. So it's good for everybody.
College was a wonderful time to really explore my interests. I ended up writing my senior thesis about gender inequality in the developing world.
Economic inequality is less troubling if you live in a country where any child, no matter how humble his or her origins, can grow up to be president.
The higher the coefficient of inequality (Gini coefficient) in a society, the worse things tend to be for those at the bottom.
Feminism needs a political program because gender inequality has been fostered by political decisions.
Empirically, all pornography is made under conditions of inequality based on sex, overwhelmingly by poor, desperate, homeless, pimped women who were sexually abused as children.
One of the most important of all the causes of great inequality of income is the inheritance of a great fortune by a small minority.
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.
Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow.
Inequality, climate change, and conflict are evicting millions from their homes. But these perils are being met with 'anti-answers' such as nationalism, closed borders, lies, and hatred.
White people need to wake up and tell the truth about US history and the inequality and the ways in which racism is so entrenched.
In the US, the problem is primary and secondary education. We've had such an increase in inequality because a quarter of American kids don't finish high school!
Income inequality is troubling because, among other things, it means that many people in our society don't have the opportunities to advance themselves.
The Procrustean bed is not a symbol of equality. It is no less inequality to have equality among unequals.
We need to truly understand what economic injustice and inequality looks like for hard-working Canadians grappling with it every day on the ground, at home and at work.
When humans invented material inequality, they came up with a way of subjugating the low-ranking like nothing ever seen before in the primate world.
Income inequality has become so prevalent in the U.S. that examples of its negative impact on the middle class are as common as Kanye West saying something cringeworthy in the media.
Employers able to work together with workers and sharing gains and profits will lead to a much better world, getting away from income inequality.
How can one not speak about war, poverty, and inequality when people who suffer from these afflictions don't have a voice to speak?
While capitalist countries have more inequality - they also have more wealth overall.
When the topic is growing income inequality, it's hard to prettify an imbalance between the rich and everybody else, so instead, conservatives try to argue that it doesn't exist.
Dependence goes somewhat against the grain of a generous mind; and it is no wonder that it should do so, considering the unreasonable advantage which is often taken of the inequality of fortune.
A new business model based on old principles of social justice where people matter - now that's a revolutionary way to reduce inequality.
Inequality reigns in horrifying ways, and not everyone can even read, but the world of media and advertising withholds very little from the imagination of the dispossessed.
History and socio-economic inequality and all those things had, like, borne down upon my family and my community and really sort of narrowed our choices.
In middle-income countries, inequality becomes a problem because you can see there is a layer of people who are doing well, while the poor are still stuck there.
We don't have a divine right to success. So I agree with a lot of politicians out there when they say, 'We've got serious issues.' We do: immigration, infrastructure. I think income inequality's one of them.
