Ayanna Pressley Quotes

Why did the world ever become so unequal?

We live in a country of grotesque inequalities.

Disparity is Australia's worst social problem. Thousands of lives are slowly being crushed, while billions are wasted on thousands of little initiatives trying to 'close the gap.'

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.

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

There is a profound unfairness embedded in the economic system.

The same way I'm not afraid of calling out systemic discrimination, I'm also not afraid of calling out inequality and the fact that inequality is growing in society and that affects everybody, regardless of race.

One of the great conundrums in philanthropy globally is that the way wealth creation happens itself often creates the inequities in society.

If the market is left to sort matters out, social injustice will be heightened and suffering in the community will grow with the neglect the market fosters.

Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.

American journalists tend to treat inequality as a fact of life. But it needn't be.

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.

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.

As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.

Inequality doesn't create unhappiness.

Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side; of the face can smile while the other is pinched.

I'm interested in illuminating the enormous disparity between vast poverty and the tiny upper class... This vast inequity is unfair by definition, and I am interested in illuminating that and, where possible, changing that.

The issue of wealth inequality is ... the great moral issue of our time.

So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings, goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury, and make sharper the contest between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.

History shows that when you have continuing income inequality it is an invitation to class conflict.

You can make too much of inequality because there is always so much of it.

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

All inequality that has no special utility to justify it is injustice.

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

You are exacerbating inequality rather than opening up opportunity.