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Quotes About Inequalities

I don't see much of a future for the Americans... it's a decayed country. And they have their racial problems, and the problem of social inequalities... my feelings against the Americanism are feelings of hatred and deep repugnance... everything about the behaviour of American society reveals that it's half Judaised, and the other half negrified. How can one expect a state like that to hold together?
~ Adolf Hitler
If all were equalized by death, as the medieval idea constantly emphasized, was it not possible that inequalities on earth were contrary to the will of God?
~ Barbara Tuchman
Health inequalities and the social determinants of health are not a footnote to the determinants of health. They are the main issue.
~ Michael Marmot
We have to put reduction of health inequalities at the centre of our public health strategy and that will require action on the social determinants of health.
~ Michael Marmot
Health and health inequalities tell us a great deal about the good or bad effects of social policies.
~ Michael Marmot
All analysts spend half their time hunting through the literature for inequalities which they want to use and cannot prove.
~ G. H. Hardy
There are lots of deficient numbers that are just one larger than the sum of their divisors, but there are no abundant numbers that are just one smaller than the sum of theirs.
~ Y?ko Ogawa
networks of social relations and institutions which have the effect of sustaining a combination of actions, cultures, and practices which then reproduce racialized inequalities over time.
~ Ali Rattansi
It is of course perfectly possible for a university, or any institution, to carry out a rigorous investigation into the historical origins of its accumulated wealth, while at the same time putting in place systems to address modern inequalities of access and attainment.
~ David Olusoga
Creating a more equal society means tackling the inequalities that emerge before children even start school.
~ Liz Kendall
Indeed, in Central Europe, communism claimed to be the cure for the economic inequalities and other cruelties wrought by bourgeois industrial development, a radical liberal populism of a sort, while in the former Byzantine-Ottoman empire, where there had never been such modern development, communism was simply a destructive force, a second Mongol invasion.
~ Robert D. Kaplan
The government, Lincoln suggests, should intervene to protect individuals from other individuals—to redress the natural consequences of inequalities of power.
~ Kermit Roosevelt III
Social cohesion and inclusive growth are additional crucial perspectives to incorporate into public policies, targeting a renewed social contract that reduces inequalities and benefits the whole of society.
~ Jose Angel Gurria
I decided to make a lifetime commitment against social injustices, against inequalities, and that is why I am profoundly from the Left.
~ Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
In my opinion, the Doha Round is the most important thing that we can do to reduce inequalities, create opportunities, and develop the poorest countries, face up to the struggle against terrorism and strengthen democracy.
~ Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
Property-owning democracy avoids [inequalities], not by redistributing income to those with less at the end of each period, so to speak, but rather by ensuring the widespread ownership of productive assets and human capital (educated abilities and trained skills) at the beginning of each period.
~ John Rawls
The job of the government - and my responsibility - is to help people live healthier lives. The framework is about giving local authorities the ability to focus on the most effective ways to improve the public's health and reduce health inequalities, long-term, from cradle to grave.
~ Andrew Lansley
The lack of health care coverage has remained very important to me during my time in Congress and as a member of the House Subcommittee on Health, I am working hard with my colleagues to correct these inequalities.
~ Paul Gillmor
I want a European future where we extend and reinforce peace and prosperity to the east, a future where workers are better protected and inequalities reduced, where our energy and lifestyles are clean and green, where democracy is enhanced, where taxes are paid and corporations play by fair rules.
~ Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis
In prison, the gloves were off, the comforting rhetoric and rationalization were absent. To use a phrase from Plato, I saw the laws of our society 'writ large' - its flagrant inequalities of opportunity and disastrous results, its contempt for vast categories of our fellow human beings, its reliance on institutional violence.
~ David Dellinger
America is saying, we want to have justice and safety and end inequalities. And we don't want fancy candidates.
~ Eric Adams
Migration powers economic growth, reduces inequalities, and connects diverse societies. Yet it is also a source of political tensions and human tragedies.
~ Antonio Guterres
Doughnut Economics sets out an optimistic vision of humanity's common future: a global economy that creates a thriving balance thanks to its distributive and regenerative design. Such an aspiration may seem foolish, even naive, given the intertwined crises of climate change, violent conflict, forced migration, widening inequalities, rising xenophobia and endemic financial instability that we face.
~ Kate Raworth
I think the main thing for young women is to have confidence and not be afraid to challenge continuing inequalities, because that's the only way you'll get change.
~ Sarah Gavron