Jagmeet Singh Quotes

You are exacerbating inequality rather than opening up opportunity.

In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of 'the Haves' over the human rights of 'the Have Nots' is inevitably called into serious question.

Why did the world ever become so unequal?

To be concerned about inequality is not engaging in class warfare.

We should be uncomfortable with the growing gaps in our society, and we cannot allow ourselves to become desensitized to these injustices.

I think, unfortunately, we've always lived in a world of massive inequality: inequality between the haves and the have-nots, inequality between men and women that not only exists temporally but geographically as well.

I don't think we live in a particularly equal society.

Separate and unequal didn't work 100 years ago. It will not work today.

Colour is not the issue in America; class is.

We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity.

We don't live in a society that has genuine equality, and every woman we know has experienced that.

Remember, until the 1970s, the spread of democracy has always been accompanied by the decline of inequality. The more democratic our societies have been, the more equal they have been becoming. Now we have the reverse tendency. The spread of democracy now is very much accompanied by the increase in inequality.

The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together.

Inequality doesn't create unhappiness.

And nothing embittered me, which is important, because I think ethnic people and women in this society can end up being embittered because of the lack of affirmative action, you know.

During the Great Depression, African Americans were faced with problems that were not unlike those experienced by the most disadvantaged groups in society. The Great Depression had a leveling effect, and all groups really experienced hard times: poor whites, poor blacks.

I don't think we should stop emphasizing race because I think, you know, race is still very, very important, and we have to recognize that and continue to introduce programs to address racial inequities. But we have to widen our vision and also address the growing problems of economic class.

Is the great working class oppressed? Yes, undoubtedly it is. God has intended the great to be great and the little to be little.

The prime culprit in causing contemporary social inequality seems to be merit.

Our nation's long neglect of minorities whose skin is dark is perhaps only a little worse than our neglect of another minority whose hair is white.

The concessions of the privileged to the unprivileged are so seldom brought about by any better motive than the power of the unprivileged to extort them

Integration in the fields of education, housing, transportation and public accommodations will be of limited extent and duration so long as fundamental economic inequality along racial lines persist.

Inequality is bad for everyone, not just the middle class and the poor.

Inequality saps the will to conceive of ambitious solution to large collective problems, because those problems [to the have’s] no longer seem very collective. Inequality undermines democracy/

That certain groups do much better in America than others—as measured by income, occupational status, test scores and so on – is difficult to talk about.