Quotes About Inequality

In college, when I was kind of confronted with facts and figures about inequality in America, a big impulse I had was to go hang out with homeless people around my university and hear them out and understand their situation from their perspective.

The biggest single challenge to America and our future is income inequality. We've got to fix it.

This is an anxiety driven world - the whole world is driven by anxiety. It is anxiety about the aftermath of the global financial crisis; it's anxiety about inequality and about computers replacing jobs.

A lot of my book, 'The Price of Inequality,' is about why there has been an increase in rent-seeking.

Success breeds inequality, and you don't want to choke off success.

It's incredibly important to understand history... when it comes to inequality.

'Munmun' happened because the human world's dizzying inequality - of wealth and of power - had begun to send me over the edge, and I had to write something to try to help myself understand it a little better.

There is a lot of inequality in Colombia. We have to correct that.

Inequality is an enormously complicated thing that is both good and bad.

Rising inequality is not a law of nature - it's not even a law of economics. It is a consequence of political and economic arrangements, and those arrangements can be changed.

If you don't have money or you come from a background that doesn't have money, it's harder to achieve your ambition in life. It's not that you can't, but it becomes harder. Inequality is one of the worst things that can exist in our society, so I am interested in those kind of things.

The amount of suffering I've seen is beyond belief. The amount of inequality is beyond belief.

There has been inequality for so long, and now that someone like Trump is in charge, we're face to face with how much misogyny there is in the world. But things are moving quickly, and you just want to say, 'Let's think about this, because we don't want to jeopardise real change.'

All of my life and particularly throughout of my public career, I have been talking about the feminization of poverty. And one of the manifestations of the feminization of poverty is the issue of pay inequality in our society.

We live in a country of grotesque inequalities.

By expediting the use of the 1619 Project, our schools are coming perilously close to cementing existing inequality, rather than giving kids the chance to escape it.

The impact of punitive government measures is long-lasting and widens inequality and social discord.

We need to recognize that it is growing economic inequality that creates the conditions for hate to fester.

We must not let the response to the coronavirus crisis make the climate and inequality crises even worse.

Conservatives cannot be absent from the debate on inequality and equality in the nation.

Income inequity has to be addressed.

After adjusting for inflation, the average income of the top 5% of households grew by 38% from 1989 to 2013. By comparison, the average real income of the other 95% of households grew less than 10%.

Being a doctor, lawyer in war-torn countries isn't easy when the infrastructure isn't there. The money, the food and education is not always accessible to achieve those dreams.

Racist infrastructure has damaged districts like mine for generations.