Quotes About Inequality

We want our children to live in an America that isn't burdened by debt, that isn't weakened by inequality, that isn't threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet.

It's harder to empathize with those who appear to possess more power, status, or resources.

Power always has a direction. It is always downward, towards the weak but power is often confused with what is right

Power is gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent.

Occupy Wall Street means making Wall Street and the corporate power elite understand that the people affected by the binge of unregulated greed are not going away, and they are not going to give up.

By the numbers, by all the official records, here at the confluence of history, of racism, of poverty, and economic power, this is what our lives are worth: nothing.

So long as there are nobles and commoners, the wealthy and the poor, those with power will be heard, and those without ignored. That's the world.

By definition, design, and practice, capitalism is a system that concentrates economic power in the hands of the few to the exclusion of the many.

The key to understanding the rise in inequality isn't technology or globalization. It's the power of the moneyed interests to shape the underlying rules of the market.

The power of capitalism to mediate the gap between rich and poor is pretty incredible. Indeed, I think, year by year, the gap gets less.

We live in a country where a small number of people have incredible wealth and power. America has more income and wealth inequality than any other major country.

Thank God for the white male power structure.

Governments are not overthrown by the poor, who have no power, but by the rich-when they are insulted by their inferiors and cannot obtain justice.

Free speech has been used by the Supreme Court to give immense power to the wealthiest members of our society.

Power always protects the good of some at the expense of all others.

In the assumption that power belongs as a matter of course to capital, all economists are Marxians.

It's a rule worth having in mind. Income almost always flows along the same axis as power but in the opposite direction.

New York white youth were killing victims; that was a 'sociological' problem. But when black youth killed somebody, the power structure was looking to hang somebody.

According to the World Bank, the concentration of wealth and the structures of corporate economic power have no bearing on woman's rights.

People have no human rights, only the rights that they can gain on the labour market. Above all, wealth and power have to be protected.

This is class war on an international scale, and power is in the hands of those who control the international economic system.

As a Londoner I was able to see how the world of power and money cast its shadow on those who failed.

Those who live in the best cliffs think they are better than us. That is always man's attitude when he has power.

Greater economic power will be in the hands of too few.