Economic Inequality Quotes - Page 2

• The greatest country, the richest country, is not that which has the most capitalists, monopolists, immense grabbings, vast fortunes, with its sad, sad soil of extreme, degrading, damning poverty, but the land in which there are the most homesteads, freeholds - where wealth does not show such contrasts high and low, where all men have enough - a modest living- and no man is made possessor beyond the sane and beautiful necessities.

  Walt Whitman

  Beautiful, Country, Men

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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

  Tables, Remember, Hungry

  Pope Francis (2016). “Care for Creation: A Call for Ecological Conversion”, p.31, Orbis Books

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• Strong, responsible unions are essential to industrial fair play. Without them the labor bargain is wholly one-sided.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Strong, Play, Essentials

  "The Curse of Bigness: Miscellaneous Papers of Louis D. Brandeis". Book by Louis Dembitz Brandeis, Clarence Martin Lewis, 1965.

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• Strong, responsible unions are essential to industrial fair play. Without them the labor bargain is wholly one-sided. The parties to the labor contract must be nearly equal in strength if justice is to be worked out, and this means that the workers must be organized and that their organizations must be recognized by employers as a condition precedent to industrial peace.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Strong, Party, Mean

  "The Curse of Bigness: Miscellaneous Papers of Louis D. Brandeis". Book by Osmond Kessler Fraenkel and Clarence Martin Lewis, 1965.

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• The weak economy, widening income inequality, gridlock in Congress and a presidential election: Those were perhaps the dominant economic and political themes of 2012.

  Steven Rattner

  Presidential, Political, Income

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• How many of us, myself included, have lost our bearings; we are no longer attentive to the world in which we live; we don’t care; we don’t protect what God created for everyone, and we end up unable even to care for one another.

  Pope Francis

  World, Care, Lost

  Pope Francis (2016). “Care for Creation: A Call for Ecological Conversion”, p.15, Orbis Books

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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 necessaries of life.

  John Sherman

  Kings, Political, Should

  "Elizabeth Warren’s Consolidation Speech Could Change the Election" by Paul Glastris, washingtonmonthly.com. June 30, 2016.

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• Once, a union job at GM or AT&T was a bridge to success. Now, a nonunion Wal-Mart job is a bridge to nowhere.

  Andy Stern

  Jobs, Struggle, Bridges

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• The major economic policy challenges facing the nation today - pick your favorites among the usual suspects of low public and household savings, concerns about educational quality and achievement, high and rising income inequality, the large imbalances between our social insurance commitments and resources - are not about monetary policy.

  Timothy Geithner

  Educational, Commitment, Achievement

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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

  Views, Evil, Humanity

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• 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

  Country, Religious, Religion

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• The state of inequality between individuals and between nations not only still exists; it is increasing. It still happens that side by side with those who are wealthy and living in plenty there exist those who are living in want, suffering misery and often actually dying of hunger; and their number reaches tens, even hundreds of millions.

  Pope John Paul II

  Numbers, Suffering, Dying

  Pope John Paul II (1996). “The Encyclicals of John Paul II”, Our Sunday Visitor (IN)

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• When fewer workers have unions, the standard of living falls for everyone and the gap between the rich and poor grows.

  John Sweeney

  Fall, Gaps, Unions

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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.

  John L. Lewis

  Mother, Baby, Rags

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• I will always have enough money to last the rest of my life...as long as I don't buy anything.

  Ed Asner

  Long, Lasts, Enough

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• The perennial conviction that those who work hard and play by the rules will be rewarded with a more comfortable present and a stronger future for their children faces assault from just about every direction. That great enemy of democratic capitalism, economic inequality, is real and growing.

  Jon Meacham

  Children, Real, Hard Work

  "Keeping the Dream Alive" by Jon Meacham, content.time.com. June 21, 2012.

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• When you say fiscal responsibility, it seems to me that you really mean rich people keeping their money.

  Alice Adams

  Money, Mean, Responsibility

  Alice Adams (2011). “LISTENING TO BILLIE: A Novel”, p.119, Vintage

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• If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves.

  Lane Kirkland

  Funny, Money, Hard Work

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• 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 Trumka

  Wall, Goal, Greed

  "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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• Workers of the world awaken. Break your chains, demand your rights.
  All the wealth you make is taken, by exploiting parasites.
  Shall you kneel in deep submission from your cradle to your grave?
  Is the height of your ambition to be a good and willing slave?

  Joe Hill

  Struggle, Taken, Ambition

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• Thievery is what unregulated capitalism is all about.

  Robert Sherrill

  Thievery, Capitalism, Economic

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• Depression is a serious problem, but drugs are not the answer. In the long run, psychotherapy is both cheaper and more effective, even for very serious levels of depression. Physical exercise and self-help books based on CBT can also be useful, either alone or in combination with therapy. Reducing social and economic inequality would also reduce the incidence of depression.

  Irving Kirsch

  Running, Book, Exercise

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• Every dollar that the boss did not work for, one of us worked for a dollar and didn't get it.

  William C. Dudley

  Boss, Dollars, Economic

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• You may be sure that in this new international system, the American citizen will count for precious little.

  Pat Buchanan

  Citizens, May, Littles

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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. Ehrlich

  Religious, War, Population Problem

  "Paul Ehrlich and the Population Bomb". PBS video produced by David Suzuki,

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