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- Nov 07, 2020
Inequality Quotes
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Boldly
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even after facing jail, Martin Luther King, Jr. courageously and boldly spoke out against racial inequality.
- Corrosive
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- Nov 07, 2020
Economic inequality is a corrosive force that undermines economic growth, puts a brake on the fight against poverty, and sparks social unrest.
- Rise
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- Nov 07, 2020
Inequality is on the rise.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Persistent inequality costs the U.S. hundreds of billions of dollars a year, undermining our global competitiveness, our democracy, and our ideals as a nation.
- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ending educational inequality is going to require systemic change and a long-term, sustained effort. There are no shortcuts and no silver bullets.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bombay is the ideal microcosm of India, of that whole sense of inequality where you could have the biggest skyscrapers next to the poorest slums.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
American social arrangements, economic arrangements, the degree of inequality in American life, the relatively small role played by the government in American public life and so forth, compares to exactly the opposite conditions in most of the European societies.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
President Obama believes that income inequality is one of the most pressing matters facing the nation. If we are going to be a country that provides ladders of opportunity and believes in a thriving middle class, then we have to raise the minimum wage.
- Constitution
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- Nov 07, 2020
Americans swept away the instruments of English hereditary inequality - entails and titles of nobility - even before we had a constitution.
- Election
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- Nov 07, 2020
The weak economy, widening income inequality, gridlock in Congress and a presidential election: Those were perhaps the dominant economic and political themes of 2012.
- Gender
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- Nov 07, 2020
Feminism needs a political program because gender inequality has been fostered by political decisions.
- American Republic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Inequality was written into the creation of the American Republic when our Founding Fathers denied voting rights to women.
- Nov 07, 2020
I feel disheartened when I see stereotypes, because it's untrue and unfair. It just raises the level of inequality.
- Economic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Does inequality in the distribution of income increase or decrease in the course of a country's economic growth?
- Depraved
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- Nov 07, 2020
When corporations refuse to practice due diligence by not establishing grievance mechanisms for remedy of abuses against the hidden 94% of their workforce in their global supply chains, they perpetuate a depraved model of profit-making that has driven inequality to a level now seen as a global risk in itself.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stark inequality, poverty, and unemployment are driving increased social unrest and, consequently, social and economic risk. Environmental deterioration may well intensify social inequality.
- Continue
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the impoverishment and community fragmentation continue, it is not a stretch to predict urban wars sparked by inequality, unemployment, and the breakdown of dialogue between leaders and citizens.
- Dignity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Inequality is a poison that is destroying livelihoods, stripping families of dignity, and splitting communities.
- Growing
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is growing inequality. The families of the all-powerful Ministers are getting richer. The poor and hard-working Belizeans are getting poorer.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
The default of our society is the reproduction of racial inequality. I mean, that's what it does; that's what it's been doing for hundreds of years.
- Conflict
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- Nov 07, 2020
A permanent division of labor inevitably creates occupational and class inequality and conflict.
- Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no question that we, as a country, need to deal with economic inequality across the country, and we need to make sure we have good-paying jobs for everyone.
- Exacerbate
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- Nov 07, 2020
A visionary leadership is required to harness rapid technological change for positive benefit rather than allowing to become disruptive and further exacerbate economic inequality.
- Fragility
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fragility, violence, and conflict are complex. Fragility is influenced by a wide set of factors, many of which are deeply entrenched, such as high social and income inequality. The lines between criminal, inter-communal, and politically motivated violence are often blurred.
- Innovation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not speaking in favor of killing innovation. I'm speaking in favor of centrist use of the market, which involves necessarily a considerable degree of regulation. Markets by themselves will get themselves inevitably into inequality and into their own destruction. It will happen again and again.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax; government transfer payments have become less progressive.
- Leaving
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- Nov 07, 2020
Inequality causes problems by creating fissures in societies, leaving those at the bottom feeling marginalized or disenfranchised.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that if you want to fight inequality you have to do it starting at infancy.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
Inequality of any kind, once considered a normal, natural part of human existence, came to be seen in the course of the twentieth century as increasingly illegitimate.
- Equality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hillary is not an agent of change. Nor does she have any idea how to restore rapid economic growth. Instead, she is a prisoner of the Left. Tax the rich, inequality, redistribution.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get asked to comment a lot on inequality in cycling, but for me it has never been an issue. Everything has always been equal on the track, and the male and female riders are all part of the same team, and we all mix freely.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Fourth Industrial Revolution has the potential to empower individuals and communities, as it creates new opportunities for economic, social, and personal development. But it also could lead to the marginalization of some groups, exacerbate inequality, create new security risks, and undermine human relationships.
- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that on the Democratic side, Bernie Sanders talks about income inequality and poverty alleviation, and those issues are so important.
- Globalisation
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are dealing with the greater challenges of globalisation. It is generating, in many cases, an increase in the levels of inequality in societies... that is undesirable.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
To deal with radicalism and extremism, we need to deal with economic inequality. This is what I learned from my experience in Solo and then in Jakarta.
- Debatable
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- Nov 07, 2020
Inequality for gay and lesbian people is no longer a debatable issue in either church or state.
- Fall
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- Nov 07, 2020
Inequality in the developed world fell for most of the 20th century; we can make it fall for most of the 21st century, too. But it won't happen without sustained pressure on politicians from electorates.
- Estate Tax
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- Nov 07, 2020
Repealing the estate tax won't create jobs, it won't boost GDP, and it won't add efficiency to the market. Instead, repealing the estate tax will simply add to the debt, hurt our ability to build a stronger economy and worsen economic inequality.
- Injustice
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- Nov 07, 2020
My Scottish Labour Party is a crusade - to fight poverty, inequality and injustice.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's a very central tenet to it yes, it is. I can't bear it, I can't bear inequality, I can't bear bad behaviour to other people. I cannot bear it that people are mean to people who can't help what they are.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Early investment in the lives of disadvantaged children will help reduce inequality, in both the short and the long run.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to recognize that it is growing economic inequality that creates the conditions for hate to fester.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Inequality is on the rise in Canada and those at the top have no idea what life is like for most Canadian families.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been in revolt for years against ignominy, against injustice, against inequality, against immorality, against the exploitation of human beings.
- Giving
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- Nov 07, 2020
The equality among all members of the League, which is provided in the statutes giving each state only one vote, cannot of course abolish the actual material inequality of the powers concerned.
- Forever
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- Nov 07, 2020
The days of humiliation, of second-class citizens and of inequality are over and gone forever.
- Income
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Princeton economist Alan Krueger has demonstrated that societies with higher levels of income inequality are societies with lower levels of social mobility.
- Deal
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there is inequality, and that equates with colour, then I'm going to deal with it.
- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020
Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs did not start out wealthy, and actually added to income inequality, but we all benefit from their creative effort.
- Nov 07, 2020
It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
American journalists tend to treat inequality as a fact of life. But it needn't be.
- Innovation
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is the upside of inequality? I would say that it's a deep pool of properly trained, highly motivated talent that is endeavoring to create innovation that grows our knowledge-based economy.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men?
- Beyond
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- Nov 07, 2020
The amount of suffering I've seen is beyond belief. The amount of inequality is beyond belief.
- Pain
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Savior has suffered not just for our iniquities but also for the inequality, the unfairness, the pain, the anguish, and the emotional distresses that so frequently beset us.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
The inequality between CEO compensation and the compensation received by workers and stockholders has grown to such an extent that it endangers our economy and and our society.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
While capitalist countries have more inequality - they also have more wealth overall.
- Enforcing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Schools are the single largest lever of mobility in this country. When we commit to creating and enforcing laws that acknowledge the injustice of the past, we open up the possibility of using schools as a means of reducing inequality.
- India
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- Nov 07, 2020
Individual nations have offered their own contributions to income inequality - financial deregulation and upper-bracket tax cuts in the United States; insider privatization in Russia; rent-seeking in regulated industries in India and Mexico.
- Different Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Income inequality is one thing, but a permanent division into the haves and have-nots is an entirely different thing - and much less acceptable.
- Nov 07, 2020
The triumph of economic liberalization has coincided with a sharp increase in income inequality.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm of those who believe that excesses in all matters are not a good idea, whether it's formation of bubbles, whether it's excess in the financial market, whether it's excess of inequality, it has to be watched, it has to be measured, and it has to be anticipated in terms of consequences.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I wrote 'The Assistants,' I knew very much that I wanted to write about income inequality and student loan debt and the gender wage gap, but I wanted to put it in a really slick, fun package. That book ended up being described as a socially conscious novel in chick-lit clothing.
- Healthy
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're all burdened by our history of racial inequality. It's created a kind of smog that we all breathe in, and it has prevented us from being healthy.
- Educational Opportunities
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- Nov 07, 2020
Another example of the educational inequality is the current debate over publicly financed school vouchers which will provide educational opportunities to a privileged handful, but deprive public schools of desperately needed resources.
- Policy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Monetary policy is a blunt tool which certainly affects the distribution of income and wealth, although whether the net effect is to increase or reduce inequality is not clear.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
But it is also clear that left entirely untouched by public policy, the capitalist system will produce more inequality than is socially healthy or than is necessary for maximum efficiency.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they themselves take.
- Factors
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- Nov 07, 2020
Study after study has shown that the availability of stable employment, reduced income inequality and post-imprisonment neighbourhood affluence are three of the most significant factors in reducing the frequency of violent offences.
- Real
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some of the anti-trade sentiment is the result of rising wealth inequality and stagnating real wages.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020