Theresa May Quotes

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

The idea of solving as huge and long-term a problem as inequality - which, for my money, is the biggest single problem we have here at home - just never gets serious concern from both sides.

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.

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

You are exacerbating inequality rather than opening up opportunity.

You can’t fix the things that bother you the most by passing a law.

In a system that disproportionately harms poor people and people of color, too many Americans have lost faith in the essential American principle of equal justice under law.

Just because I get to coast around in a nice, cushy little bubble, that's not how it is for everybody.

Inequality is an enormously complicated thing that is both good and bad.

Let me assure you that New Democrats will support a bold agenda to tackle inequality, even though it is certain to encounter strong opposition from vested interests.

The wealthy have a responsibility to invest in addressing inequality. This is especially true when constraints on others are so great.

Knowing the horror that most women have of anything approaching irreverence, the Bible has been called out to play the part of a scarecrow on the rich fields of men’s monopolies…Men have had the management of all things human for six thousand years…Has the result been so eminently successful that we need dread a little change?

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/

The American people are not inclined to change their society in order to free the Negro. They are ready to undertake some, and perhaps major reforms, but not to make a revolution.

… the process of social change was not merely a matter of new inventions pressing on old institutions: it was a matter of new classes displacing old.

The greatest issue before the people—the question of special privilege and unequal distribution of wealth.

The most disastrous revolutions are produced by the extreme of physical want; the most happy, by wants of a moral kind, physical want being absent.

Conservatives tend to prefer stability even if it leads to inequality, and liberals tend to prefer equality even if it requires change.

Slavery was gone but its inequalities remained.

That's why I want to change Mississippi. You don't run away from problems - you just face them.

Whatever we do, whatever our backgrounds, we've all had some kind of advantage somewhere along the way. Some break that might have gone to someone else. Some edge or inside track we couldn't have counted on.

Too often, customary practices and discrimination on the basis of gender, ethnicity, race, religion, social status, or class are the root sources of pervasive inequality in many countries.

I think that's something that's hard for this country to address, is what the real issues are and coming to the point where we can admit that these are issues. Once we admit that, we can deal with it, we can fix them, and we can make this country and these communities a better place.

Minorities do not believe this country will give them a fair shake.

I was really interested in the way in which poverty and economic stagnation were transforming and corrupting the American narrative.