Quotes about Economic inequality

The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is slave to the lender.

Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land,

Inequality of outcomes is not seen as a necessary evil that government should seek to remedy; rather, the government itself exists to guard citizens' right to accumulate unequal fortunes and property.

America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.

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.

As we view the achievements of aggregated capital, we discover the existence of trusts, combinations, and monopolies, while the citizen is struggling far in the rear or is trampled to death beneath an iron heel. Corporations, which should be the carefully constrained creatures of the law and the servants of the people, are fast becoming the people's masters.

Wealthy women have rights in every country. And poor women don't.

The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.

It comforts everybody to think of all Negroes as dirt poor, and to regard those who were not, who earned good money and kept it, as some kind of shameful miracle. White people liked that idea because Negroes with money and sense made them nervous. Colored people liked it because, in those days, they trusted poverty, believed it was a virtue and a sure sign of honesty. Too much money had a whiff of evil and somebody else's blood.

The few who profit from the labor of the masses want to organize the workers into an army which will protect the interests of the capitalists.

The degree of political pressure to make MGNREGA jobs available varies massively from state to state - which is why access to MGNREGA jobs is worse in a very poor state like Bihar than in a richer state like Andhra Pradesh.

There is nothing more sickening than talking about poverty over a fancy dinner.