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Inequality Quotes

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A nation will not survive morally or economically when so few have so much and so many have so little.
Bernie Sanders

A country will not endure ethically or financially when a select few possess an abundance and the majority have so little.
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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
Voltaire

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You can't solve a problem as complex as inequality in one legal clause.
Theresa May

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Rising inequality isn’t about who has the knowledge; it’s about who has the power.
Paul Krugman

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If we save the planet and have a society of inequality, we wouldn't have saved much.
James H. Cone

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If you're just the person with power, exercising that power fearfully and angrily, you're going to be an operative of injustice and inequality.
Bryan Stevenson

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Health inequalities and the social determinants of health are not a footnote to the determinants of health. They are the main issue.
Michael Marmot

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American inequality didn't just happen. It was created.
Joseph Stiglitz

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Marriage ... is still the imperfect institution it must remain while women continue to be ill-educated, passive, and subservient.
Harriet Martineau

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When inequality gets to an extreme, it is completely useless for growth.
Thomas Piketty

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Gender inequality is not one problem, it's a collection of problems.
Amartya Sen

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You have to be interested in inequality. The issue of inequality and that of poverty are not separable.
Amartya Sen

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Private property implies exclusivity, inequality, and difference.
Hans-Hermann Hoppe

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Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality.
Adam Smith

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Inequality hardens society into a class system. Inequality divides us from one another... Inequality undermines democracy.
George Packer

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You can call it institutionalized racism or institutionalized inequality, but what I say is that any system that operates to maintain inequality is a corrupt system and must be addressed.
Robert D Bullard

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Health and health inequalities tell us a great deal about the good or bad effects of social policies.
Michael Marmot

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The only living socities are those which are animated by inequality and injustice.
Paul Claudel

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If you're perpetuating discrimination, you're perpetuating inequality.
Ellen Page

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Contrary to the received wisdom, global markets are not unregulated. They are regulated to produce inequality.
Kevin Watkins

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Sex -- the great inequality, the great miscalculator, the great Irritator.
Enid Bagnold

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Racial inequality is a big problem.
Hillary Clinton

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You get yourself up for it somehow, and your endurance and the crowd gets you up, too.
Janet Jackson

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The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.
James Anthony Froude

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Regardless of how you interpret the facts, you have to come to the conclusion that inequality is widening in the US and in almost every other country.
Robert Reich

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Inequality promotes progress.
James Cook

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Everyone has an equal right to inequality.
John Ralston Saul

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Prolonged endurance tames the bold.
Lord Byron

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We're dealing with a crisis of inequality, of joblessness, of underemployment.
Avi Lewis

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Wealth inequality has increased.
Cornel West

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My advice to everybody would be to go out as much as possible and deal with social inequality and environmental degradation because these issues are increasingly prescient.
David Harvey

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Education is not the only answer and it's certainly not the immediate solution. At best, it's a necessary, but not sufficient response to widening inequality.
Robert Reich

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Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence.
Tarja Halonen

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Lenin, Stalin, and Mao slaughtered even more tens of millions in the name of equality than Hitler murdered in the name of inequality.
Steve Sailer

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There is still nothing like equality for women in jobs, in family. There's just an awareness that inequality is not acceptable.
Alix Kates Shulman

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We can do better. ...We can't ignore the inequalities that persist in our justice system that undermine our most deeply held values of fairness and equality.
Hillary Clinton

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Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
St. Jerome

38.
Development develops inequality.
Eduardo Galeano

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The women who do the most work get the least money, and the women who have the most money do the least work.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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We have a reversal of a longstanding trend, from rising inequality across nations and constant or declining inequality within nations, to declining inequality across nations and rising inequality within them.
Zygmunt Bauman

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Inequality is the inevitable consequence of liberty.
Salvador de Madariaga

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Do not banish reason for inequality; but let your reason serve to make the truth appear where it seems hid, and hide the false seems true.
William Shakespeare

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The Procrustean bed is not a symbol of equality. It is no less inequality to have equality among unequals.
Felix Frankfurter

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Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only.
Henry David Thoreau

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Decreasing economic growth and increasing inequality leads to increased uncertainty.
Nicholas Bloom

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The inequality between the world's individuals is staggering.
Zygmunt Bauman

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Government mitigates the inequality of power, and makes an innocent man, though of the lowest rank, a match for the mightiest of his fellow-subjects.
Joseph Addison

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Inequality is a fact. Equality is a value.
Mason Cooley

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The engine of growth is also the engine of inequality.
T. J. Stiles

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Had I been crested, not cloven, my Lords, you had not treated me thus.
Elizabeth I