John Podesta Quotes

Everyone is born equally capable but lacks equal opportunity.

Inequality doesn't create unhappiness.

Why did the world ever become so unequal?

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.

We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity.

Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.

Opportunity seems to be color-coded here in America

Tackling inequality isn’t easy. It never has been and it never will be.

Resentment — that feeling when the modern promise of equality collides with massive disparities of power, education, status and property ownership.

Awkwardness comes from the realization that, when you look around the world, it's difficult to identify anyone who isn't either the victim or the beneficiary of injustice.

What is it going to take to dismantle the systems that keep me from being able to live well and that keep me and so many other people from being able to access the things that we need and deserve?

I don't have general views about anything, except social injustice.

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.'

I just think the most difficult thing to displace is privilege.

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

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.

The world is an enormous injustice.

Inequality is a terrible waste of time, a waste of people's resources.

I am from the class that has, in a sense, benefited from the status quo, but everyone still gets victimized.

Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.

Everyone should have the same opportunity, and in many areas that's not the case because programs are built around the elite.

Inequality is on the rise.

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.

As you would expect when individualism is based only on opportunity, no one asks what happens to those who have neither the financial nor the political clout to exercise their tiny portion of that opportunity.

We do not yet have justice, equal and practical, for the poor, for the members of minority groups, for the criminally accused, for the displaced persons of the technological revolution, for alienated youth, for the urban masses, for the unrepresented consumer – for all … who do not partake of the abundance of American life.