“Go back to - my first campaign for the United States Senate. I got a bunch of people now talking about inequality. But back then they sure weren't. Back then, folks were saying I was preaching class warfare. Now it's suddenly their campaign platform.” PeopleFirstsStatesUnitedTalkingClassUnited StatesFolksCampaignsBunchInequalitySenatePlatformsPreachingWarfareClass Warfare Author:Barack Obama
“I've been talking about income inequality in America for twenty years, and when I was president, people didn't pay much attention to it, probably because wages were going up. But I don't think I've given a single solitary speech since I left office that I hadn't talked about it. It's a problem around the world and within the United States. So these people have put that on the agenda.” PeopleThinkingWorldYearsStatesProblemAmericaLeftGivenPresidentUnitedPayAttentionTalkingUnited StatesSpeechOfficeTwentiesIncomeInequalityAround The WorldAgendasSolitaryWagesIncome Inequality Author:William J. Clinton
“If ever America undergoes great revolutions, they will be brought about by the presence of the black race on the soil of the United States - that is to say, they will owe their origin not to the equality but to the inequality of conditions.” IfsStatesWisdomAmericaPoliticsBlackUnitedRaceUnited StatesEconomyConditionsRevolutionInequalitySoilLiberalismBlack Race Author:Alexis de Tocqueville
“Homemakers work longer and harder than any other class of worker in the United States for less pay, and are the most likely to be replaced by a younger worker.” StatesUnitedPayClassUnited StatesHarderWorkersInequalityReplacedHomemaker Author:Gloria Steinem
“consumption can be very harmful to the world. I'm not a big proponent of the idea that consumption makes you morally bad, but there are consequences to our acts, and those consequences are environmental degradation and the huge social inequalities that make our standard of living in the United States possible.” WorldIdeasStatesBigsSocialUnitedUnited StatesHugeStandardsConsequenceEnvironmentalInequalityConsumptionConsumerismDegradationStandards Of LivingEnvironmental DegradationSocial Inequality Author:Judith Levine
“Like an odorless gas, [inequality] pervades every corner of the United States and saps the strength of the country's democracy. But it seems impossible to find the source and shut it off.” CountryStatesSeemsUnitedPovertyUnited StatesDemocracyImpossibleSourceCornersInequalityGasSap Author:George Packer
“The United States has worse income inequality than Nigeria.” StatesUnitedUnited StatesIncomeInequalityNigeriaIncome Inequality Author:Max Fisher