Inequality Quotes
On fairness, courage, and the cost of unequal systems.
These lines take on inequality from several angles—educational gaps that need systemic fixes, the economic toll of persistent disparity, and the courage historical figures showed in speaking out. It connects to our Injustice theme.
Everything in America is so stratified by class now. We have the 93rd level of income inequality in the world. You're already seeing highway lanes that are for pay and ones that aren't.
I care about waking up to the true issues of the 21st century: inequality, diversity, and the impact of tech.
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Even after facing jail, Martin Luther King, Jr. courageously and boldly spoke out against racial inequality.
Economic inequality is a corrosive force that undermines economic growth, puts a brake on the fight against poverty, and sparks social unrest.
Division Quotes
Extreme inequality is no temporary blip. It is hard-wired into our economies.
I maintain that the period during the first half of the 1990s, the period in which rising inequality reached its peak, was a period in which we came very, very close to a demagogic immobilization of racism in this society.
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.
Emotion Quotes
Ending educational inequality is going to require systemic change and a long-term, sustained effort. There are no shortcuts and no silver bullets.
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.
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.
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...
Injustice Quotes
Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence.
Americans swept away the instruments of English hereditary inequality - entails and titles of nobility - even before we had a constitution.
The weak economy, widening income inequality, gridlock in Congress and a presidential election: Those were perhaps the dominant economic and political themes of 2012.
Society Quotes
Rising inequality has changed family dynamics for all socioeconomic groups.
