Inequality Quotes - Page 2

The union miner cannot agree to the acceptance of a wage principle which will permit his annual earnings and his living standards to be determined by the hungriest unfortunates whom the non-union operators can employ.

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

Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.

Private property implies exclusivity, inequality, and difference.

The balancing of the budget will not in itself place a teaspoonful of milk in a hungry baby's stomach, or remove the rags from its mother's back.

As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.

Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality.

What is economics? A science invented by the upper class in order to acquire the fruits of the labor of the underclass

Strike not for a few cents more an hour, because the price of living will be raised faster still, but strike for all you earn, be content with nothing less.

The essential point here is that all people with small, insecure incomes are in the same boat and ought to be fighting on the same side. Probably we could do with a little less talk about' capitalist' and 'proletarian' and a little more about the robbers and the robbed.

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

Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.

Unequal Democracy is the sort of book to which every political scientist should aspire--it is methodologically rigorous, conceptually serious, and above all, it addresses urgent concerns of our fellow citizens. As Bartels shows, much of what we think we know about the politics of economic inequality is dead wrong. Bartels's perplexing and often unexpected discoveries should help refocus the gathering public debate about inequality and what to do about it.

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.

To understand the Left, one must understand that in its view the greatest evil is material inequality. The Left is more troubled by economic inequality than by evil as humanity has generally understood the term.

We want a better America, an America that will give its citizens, first of all, a higher and higher standard of living so that no child will cry for food in the midst of plenty.

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

Strong, responsible unions are essential to industrial fair play. Without them the labor bargain is wholly one-sided.

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

How can it be that it is not a news item when an elderly homeless person dies of exposure, but it is news when the stock market loses two points? This is a case of exclusion.

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

Racial inequality is a big problem.

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

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

A two-parent family based on love and commitment can be a wonderful thing, but historically speaking the "two-parent paradigm" has left an extraordinary amount of room for economic inequality, violence and male dominance.