Quotes About Inequality

A woman would pitch a joke. Nothing. Then a guy would pitch it and everybody would laugh.

Part of this country's problem is that people from New York City - Wall Streeters - don't think about the little guy who can't afford things.

It isn't enough just to scream at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. We need our political system to start reflect this anger back into, 'How do we fix it? How do we get the economy going again?'

The vast majority of the people employed by Wall Street are the secretary who goes in to work on the Long Island Rail Road, who makes fifty, sixty, seventy thousand dollars a year.

The Occupy Wall Street protests are shining a national spotlight on the most powerful, dangerous and secretive economic and political force in America.

Wall Street sees a social fabric or social contract as inefficiencies, which need to be removed.

The party on Wall Street never ends - while the rest of us pick up their tab and suffer the hangover.

You have friends, and they die. You have a disease, someone you care about has a disease, Wall Street people are scamming everyone, the poor get poorer, the rich get richer. That's what we're surrounded by all the time.

Food Stamp recipients didn't cause the financial crisis; recklessness on Wall Street did.

What you're seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they're directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.

In the same way that Occupy Wall Street forever elevated that concept of income inequality, the Black Lives Matter protesters have elevated the idea of inequity in policing as it relates to minority communities.

People are rightfully upset about Wall Street abuses and excess.

I think very few people still understand the distinction between CEOs on Wall Street and the hedge-fund billionaires operating separately.

It's impossible to translate Wall Street greed into one or two demands.

Whether one agrees or disagrees with the tactics of the Occupy Wall Street movement, it's easy to understand the inspiration for its anger as well as its impatience.

Greed has increasingly become a virtue among Wall Street bankers and corporate CEOs in the U.S. Nowhere else in the world do CEOs insist on receiving compensation as high compared to what their employees earn.

Americans have known about mounting inequality and king-sized Wall Street bonuses for years. But we also had an entire genre of journalism dedicated to brushing the problem off.

Occupy Wall Street is a real movement.

By creating an urgent crisis that can only be solved by those fluent in a language too complex for ordinary people to understand, the Wall Street crowd has turned the vast majority of Americans into non-participants in their own political future.

If you think Wall Street firms have it good, you haven't looked closely at Big Oil.

Wall Street is in trouble because Main Street is broke.

The upper 1 percent, the people down on Wall Street, the corporate executives, they're the people that control this economy.

Bonuses balance my budget in New York City. The bigger the bonuses on Wall Street, the more money I had to spend on poor people. The New York City budget is determined greatly by the bonuses given on Wall Street.

Occupy Wall Street didn't just spring from the earth organically, out of thin air. This was all part of the global socialist movement.