Inequality Quotes - Page 6

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  El desequilibrio entre ricos y pobres es la dolencia más antigua y fatal de todas las repúblicas.

  Plutarch

  Libertad, tiranos, desigualdad económica

  "Cuando la desigualdad no lo es", por John Mauldin, www.forbes.com. 29 de marzo de 2014.

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• However energetically society in general may strive to make all the citizens equal and alike, the personal pride of each individual will always make him try to escape from the common level, and he will form some inequality somewhere to his own profit.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Pride, Equality, Trying

  "Democracy in America". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville, Volume II. Book Three, Chapter XIV, 1840.

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• The higher the coefficient of inequality (Gini coefficient) in a society, the worse things tend to be for those at the bottom.

  Catherine Wilson

  Higher, Bottom

  Fuente: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The concern that I have is that, as wealth continues to concentrate in the hands of a few, economic inequality grows, and power also becomes more unequal.

  Jane Mayer

  Hands, Economic Inequality, Wealth

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

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• The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior of those who are not, so long he is the repository of power.

  James F. Cooper

  Government, Long, Office

  "The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Libro de James F. Cooper, 1838.

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• Creo que si se quiere luchar contra la desigualdad hay que hacerlo desde la infancia.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Creer, Luchar, Querer

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• Diversity on the bench is critical. As practitioners, you need judges who 'get it!' We need judges who understand what discrimination feels like. We need judges who understand what inequality feels like. We need judges who understand the subtleties of unfair treatment and who are willing to call it out when they see it!

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz

  Judging, Diversity, Needs

  "Stereotyping and Prejudice". Book editing by Charles Stangor, Christian S. Crandall, July 24, 2013.

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• The great biblical tradition enjoins on all peoples the duty to hear the voice of the poor.  It bids us break the bonds of injustice and oppression which give rise to glaring, and indeed scandalous, social inequalities.

  Pope Francis

  Biblical, Voice, Giving

  "Pope Tells Philippines Leaders To End Corruption, Hear Cries Of The Poor" by Philip Pullella and Manuel Mogato, www.businessinsider.com. January 15, 2015.

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• La humanidad de todos los estadounidenses se ve mermada cuando a cualquier grupo se le niegan derechos que se conceden a otros.

  Julian Bond

  Derechos, Humanidad, Grupos

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• A todas las mujeres que han dado a luz, a todos los ciudadanos y contribuyentes, ¡es nuestro momento de conseguir la igualdad salarial de una vez por todas y la igualdad de derechos para las mujeres de los Estados Unidos de América!

  Patricia Arquette

  Equality, Rights, America

  Patricia Arquette's Academy Awards Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. February 22, 2015.

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• We need to start talking about inequality again; we need to start talking about the inequities and unfairnesses and the injustices of an excessively divided society, divided by wealth, by opportunity, by outcome, by assets and so forth.

  Tony Judt

  Opportunity, Talking, Needs

  "Tony Judt: 'I am not pessimistic in the very long run'". Interview With Stephen Foley, www.independent.co.uk. March 24, 2010.

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• The subjects of every state ought to contribute toward the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state ....As Henry Home (Lord Kames) has written, a goal of taxation should be to 'remedy inequality of riches as much as possible, by relieving the poor and burdening the rich.'

  Adam Smith

  Home, Government, Goal

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• A la larga, los hombres se convierten inevitablemente en víctimas de su riqueza. Adaptan su vida y sus costumbres a su dinero, no su dinero a su vida. Preocupa sus pensamientos, crea necesidades artificiales y levanta una cortina entre ellos y el mundo.

  Herbert Croly

  Correr, Hombres, Largo

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• Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is exploitation of the strong by the weak.

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Strong, Communism, Weak

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (2011). “Property is Theft!: A Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Anthology”, p.132, AK Press

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• Economics is sometimes associated with the study and defense of selfishness and material inequality, but it has an egalitarian and civil libertarian core that should be celebrated.

  Tyler Cowen

  Selfishness, Defense, Libertarian

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• Inequality and hierarchy are natural, but that doesn't mean they are right, that doesn't mean there is isn't a productive tension between those forces and the forces of equality.

  Chris Hayes

  Mean, Hierarchy, Natural

  "The age of illusion". Interview with Jake Blumgart, www.origin.salon.com. June 30, 2012.

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• Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men?

  Dorothy Thompson

  Home, Equality, Men

  Dorothy Thompson (1939). “Let the Record Speak”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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• Al igual que el mandamiento "No matarás" establece un límite claro para salvaguardar el valor de la vida humana, hoy también tenemos que decir "No matarás" a una economía de exclusión y desigualdad. Una economía así mata. ¿Cómo puede ser que no sea noticia que un anciano sin techo muera expuesto, pero sí lo sea que la bolsa pierda dos puntos?

  Pope Francis

  Ancianos, Orden, Dos

  Pope Francis (2014). "La alegría del Evangelio", p.21, BookBaby

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• Siempre hay desigualdad en la vida. Algunos hombres mueren en una guerra y otros resultan heridos y otros nunca salen del país. La vida es injusta.

  John F. Kennedy

  Vida, País, Guerra

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• We are here because we share a fundamental belief: that poverty, illiteracy, disease and inequality do not belong in the twenty-first century. We share a common purpose: to eradicate these ills for the benefit of all. And we share a common tool to achieve this: the Millennium Development Goals.

  Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

  Common Purpose, Goal, Firsts

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• Racial inequality has gotten worse in the last years because any time you have a moribund economy, the people who historically have had more problems getting jobs have suffered. And that, I think, is triggering a lot of the animosity.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Trabajo, Pensamiento, Años

  Fuente: www.npr.org

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• Inequality of any kind, once considered a normal, natural part of human existence, came to be seen in the course of the twentieth century as increasingly illegitimate.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  Normal, Kind, Natural

  Michael Mandelbaum (2009). “The Case for Goliath: How America Acts As the World's Government in the Twenty-First Century”, p.9, PublicAffairs

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• The engine of growth is also the engine of inequality.

  T. J. Stiles

  Growth, Engines

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• En EE.UU., un niño nacido en una familia pobre se convertirá en un adulto pobre. El sueño americano no es más que eso: no es cierto, debido al nivel de desigualdad extrema.

  Winnie Byanyima

  Inspiración, Sueño, Niños

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• La economía de goteo es un fraude. Las exenciones fiscales a los ricos y a las grandes empresas no crean empleo. Simplemente enriquece a los ricos, agranda el déficit y aumenta la desigualdad de ingresos y riqueza. Necesitamos políticas económicas que beneficien a las familias trabajadoras, no a la clase multimillonaria.

  Bernie Sanders

  Jobs, Class, Giving

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