Beware of critics of education who cloak their desire to protect privilege (and inequality) in the garb of educational reform.

— Michael S. Roth

But the basic structure of capitalism, in which a small number own most of the productive assets, guarantees that the vast majority of people will (at best) spend their lives earning wages, but never profits.

— Michael A. McCarthy

By defining the problem as "hunger," the emergency food system is helping to direct our attention away from the more fundamental problem of poverty, and the even more basic problem of inequality.

— Janet Poppendieck

By God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickedness Than all the mark of Adam may redress.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

By now, they rank people by income level or wages roughly the same: The bottom seventy percent or so are virtually disenfranchised; they have almost no influence on policy, and as you move up the scale you get more influence. At the very top, you basically run the show.

— Noam Chomsky

Capitalism does not merely mean that the housewife may influence production by her choice between peas and beans; or that plant managers have some voice in deciding what and how to produce: it means a scheme of values, an attitude toward life, a civilization—the civilization of inequality and of the family fortune.

— Joseph Alois Schumpeter

Charity erodes the cultural prerequisites for a vigorous democracy.

— Janet Poppendieck

Clearly it's not easy for women in modern society, no matter where they live. We still have to go the extra mile to prove that we are equal to men. We have to work longer hours and make more sacrifices. And we must emotionally protect ourselves from unfair, often vicious attacks made on us via the male members of our family.

— Benazir Bhutto

Cripples are not the stuff of romance. Only Lord Byron, dragging his club foot, springs to mind as an exception to the rule, but such a failing in a man is regarded as interesting, even provocative, rather than disfiguring. Women must submit to a more exacting measure.

— Mordecai Richler

Demands for equality need to be as complicated as the inequalities they seek to address.

— Reni Eddo-Lodge