quotes about Economic Inequality
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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.
-- Dennis Prager -
I will always have enough money to last the rest of my life...as long as I don't buy anything.
-- Ed Asner -
The devastation of neoliberalism is so multi-fold, whether it's violence against women or desperate economic inequality or the destruction of the planet.
-- Eve Ensler -
Man must choose whether to be rich in things or in the freedom to use them.
-- Ivan Illich -
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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.
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If we will not endure a king as a political power, we should not endure a king over the production, transportation, and sale of any of the necessities of life.
-- John ShermanSource : "Elizabeth Warren’s Consolidation Speech Could Change the Election" by Paul Glastris, washingtonmonthly.com. June 30, 2016.
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I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.
-- Mother JonesSource : "Autobiography of Mother Jones" by Mary Harris Jones, edited by Mary Field Parton, (p. 46), 2004.
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You may be sure that in this new international system, the American citizen will count for precious little.
-- Pat Buchanan -
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Solving the population problem is not going to solve the problems of racism... of sexism... of religious intolerance... of war... of gross economic inequality But if you don't solve the population problem, you're not going to solve any of those problems. Whatever problem you're interested in, you're not going to solve it unless you also solve the population problem. Whatever your cause, it's a lost cause without population control.
-- Paul R. EhrlichSource : "Paul Ehrlich and the Population Bomb". PBS video produced by David Suzuki,
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Let us remember well, however, that whenever food is thrown out it is as if it were stolen from the table of the poor, from the hungry!
-- Pope Francis -
It has been convincingly demonstrated that countries where there are high rates of poverty, or high rates of economic inequality, are the countries with the highest rates of religious beliefs.
-- Richard Dawkins -
The ultimate goal of those who blame workers for Wall Street's economic crisis is to unravel the fabric of our common life in pursuit of greed and power.
-- Richard TrumkaSource : "Unions mobilize, put Dems on notice - Gov. Blunt's profile - Tiahrt hawks Hawker - The frat PAC - AT&T/T-Mobile action" by Chris Frates, www.politico.com. May 20, 2011.
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Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.
-- Robert Green Ingersoll -
God, how patient are Thy poor! These corporations and masters of manipulation in finance heaping up great fortunes by a system of legalized extortion, and then exacting from the contributors-to whom a little means so much-a double share to guard the treasure!
-- Robert M. La Follette, Sr.Source : "American Political Rhetoric: Essential Speeches and Writings on Founding Principles and Contemporary Controversies" by Peter Augustine Lawler, The Danger Threatening Representative Government (1897), August 16, 2010.
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Thievery is what unregulated capitalism is all about.
-- Robert Sherrill -
Every dollar that the boss did not work for, one of us worked for a dollar and didn't get it.
-- William C. Dudley -