Quotes About Inequality

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The Gandhis are not ordinary Indians.

I have seen a lot of people who are affected by HIV. When I see that there is industrial growth on one side but there is not awareness on the other side, it breaks my heart.

We can't have all the concentration of wealth in a few places in this country. We've got to create economic opportunity and new industries in communities that feel left behind.

The antidote to inequality is equality. The question is how do you achieve equality? I believe that, for business, which is where I can speak, we have to shift from shareholder maximization to stakeholder maximization.

Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination.

If we wait until income inequality is much more severe, we will have a whole class of new superrich who will probably feel entitled to their wealth and will have the means to defend their interest. That's already gone far enough. We shouldn't let it become more extreme.

I have learnt a lot about the challenges children face - poverty, inequality and their difficulties in accessing basic services.

Everyone has an equal right to inequality.

If there is inequality, and that equates with colour, then I'm going to deal with it.

In general, more affordable housing correlates with lower income inequality.

I think inequality is fine, as long as it is in the common interest. The problem is when it gets so extreme, when it becomes excessive.

Income inequality isn't sexy.

Inequality is on the rise.

I have always had an extreme sensitivity to inequality.

Does inequality in the distribution of income increase or decrease in the course of a country's economic growth?

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.

Why is it that here in the United States we have such difficulty even imagining a different sort of society from the one whose dysfunctions and inequalities trouble us so?

Greater inequality in Europe has made people less happy.

Income inequality has gotten worse under President Barack Obama.

I fall into the camp that income inequality is the biggest problem we face.

The extent of and continuing increase in inequality in the United States greatly concern me.

Inequality of women concerns both India and France, though it might have different manifestations in both the countries.

When I was confronted with just the bare facts of poverty and inequality in America, it always disturbed and confused me.