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“As societies become more egalitarian, people feel less pressure to pursue ever-higher incomes and more glamorous status goods. This liberates people from the treadmill of perpetual consumerism.”

Book:Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

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“Granting that you have more money than others, and that you don’t deserve such wealth—but stopping there—allows you to settle the score by paying your taxes and advocating more redistribution. This reductive attitude toward inequality has the added comfort of justifying nasty judgments about the other side.”

Opportunity Community Inequality Elites Social Capital Wealth Redistribution

Book:Alienated America: Why Some Places Thrive While Others Collapse

Source: Alienated America: Why Some Places Thrive While Others Collapse

“This troubled planet is a place of most violent contrasts. Those who receive the rewards are totally separated from those who shoulder the burdens. It is not a wise leadership. - Mr. Spock”

Capitalism Inequality Star Trek

Book:Star Trek 12

Source: Star Trek 12

“The large rooms of which you are so proud are in fact your shame. They are big enough to hold crowds—and also big enough to shut out the voice of the poor.... There is your sister or brother, naked, crying! And you stand confused over the choice of an attractive floor covering. —Ambrose, fourth century.”

Rich Inequality Immorality Wealth Gap Eat The Rich Ambrose

Book:Advent Sourcebook

Source: Advent Sourcebook

“What keeps you from giving now? Isn't the poor person there? Aren't your own warehouses full? Isn't the reward promised? The command is clear: the hungry person is dying now, the naked person is freezing now, the person in debt is beaten now-and you want to wait until tomorrow? "I'm not doing any harm," you say. "I just want to keep what I own, that's all." You own! You are like someone who sits down in a theater and keeps everyone else away, saying that what is there for everyone's use is your own...If everyone took only what they needed and gave the rest to those in need, there would be no such thing as rich and poor. After all, didn't you come into life naked, and won't you return naked to the earth? The bread in your cupboard belongs to the hungry person; the coat hanging unused in your closet belongs to the person who needs it; the shoes rotting in your closet belong to the person with no shoes; the money which you put in the bank belongs to the poor. You do wrong to everyone you could help, but fail to help. —Basil, fourth century.”

Poor Rich Inequality Immorality Basic Wealth Gap Eat The Rich

Book:Advent Sourcebook

Source: Advent Sourcebook

“I don't write on revolution, I am the revolution.”

Revolution Social Justice Brainy Quotes Injustice Humanitarian Oppression Inequality Revolutionary Be The Change Reformer

Book:Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World

Source: Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World

“Today, the richest 8% earn half of all the world's income and the richest 1% own more than half of all wealth. The poorest billion people account for just 1% of all consumption. The richest billion, 72%.”

Inequality

Book:Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World

Source: Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World

“White privilege is about the word white, not rich. It's having advantage built into your life. It's not saying your life hasn't been hard; it's saying your skin color hasn't contributed to the difficulty in your life.”

Racism Social Justice Inequality White Privilege

Book:Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man

Source: Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man

“[Scapegoating] blames societal ills on the groups with the least power and the least say in how the country operates while allowing the larger framework and those who control and reap the dividends of these divisions to go unchecked.”

Power Racism Inequality Racism In America Scapegoat Caste Scapegoating

Book:Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

Source: Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

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