Winnie Byanyima Quotes

Giving a minimum wage reduces inequality significantly.

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• Persistent inequality costs the U.S. hundreds of billions of dollars a year, undermining our global competitiveness, our democracy, and our ideals as a nation.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Democracy
  • Year
  • Inequality

• Grave security concerns can arise as a result of demographic trends, chronic poverty, economic inequality, environmental degradation, pandemic diseases, organized crime, repressive governance and other developments no state can control alone. Arms can't address such concerns.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Control
  • Alone
  • Poverty

• Everything in America is so stratified by class now. We have the 93rd level of income inequality in the world. You're already seeing highway lanes that are for pay and ones that aren't.

  

  Adam McKay
  • World
  • America
  • Inequality

• Income inequality is worse in towns run by Democrat mayors than in towns run by Republican mayors.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Run
  • Republican
  • Inequality

• You get yourself up for it somehow, and your endurance and the crowd gets you up, too.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Up
  • Endurance
  • Crowds

• When I did the first edit of Les plages, it was very dry and very square in a way. I was just saying the minimum. I said, Well, if this is the minimum, I don't make it. So I tried to make it more refined. I tried to find images, allegorical images, that I could use to express things that I didn't want to say or didn't want to show or I was not able to find how to show.

  

  Agnes Varda
  • Said
  • Firsts
  • Able

• Do not banish reason for inequality; but let your reason serve to make the truth appear where it seems hid, and hide the false seems true.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Reason
  • Seems
  • Inequality

• Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.

  

  William Dean Howells
  • Heart
  • Liberty
  • Equality

• I thought I was gonna be in the minimum-wage working world all my life.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • World
  • Minimum

• Rising inequality isn’t about who has the knowledge; it’s about who has the power.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Power
  • Knowledge
  • Inequality

• I believe increasing minimum wage it`s not just the minimum wage, it`s a living wage.

  

  Alison Lundergan Grimes
  • Living
  • Wage
  • Minimum

• We're dealing with a crisis of inequality, of joblessness, of underemployment.

  

  Avi Lewis
  • Crisis
  • Inequality
  • Joblessness

• Keep a minimum of 15” between coffee tables and sofas.

  

  Alexa Hampton
  • Table
  • Minimum
  • Sofas

• Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.

  

  Adam Phillips
  • Ourselves
  • Minimum
  • Monogamy

• I think that the main issue with inequality is not the gap between the rich and the poor. It is the gap between the earnings of top business leaders and the salaries of academics and journalists.

  

  Arnold Kling
  • Issue
  • Inequality
  • Earnings

• In sum, therefore, many of the assumptions and analytical frameworks that underpin the instrumental argument for free markets and inequality are either invalid or much weaker than is commonly supposed.

  

  Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell
  • Argument
  • Inequality
  • Frameworks

• A September 2015 poll found that, by a 3-1 margin, voters are more likely to support political candidates who favor raising the minimum wage.

  

  David Rolf
  • Political
  • Support
  • Found

• Egalitarians create the most dangerous inequality of all - inequality of power. Allowing politicians to determine what all other human beings will be allowed to earn is one of the most reckless gambles imaginable. Like the income tax, it may start off being applied only to the rich but it will inevitably reach us all.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Rich
  • Dangerous
  • Politician

• Classical music, fortunately or not, unfolds in time. It's not like a picture you can stare at for 10 seconds or 10 hours. You need the minimum amount of education and training, and society needs to find a way to study music - not only the performances, but how to compose, how to understand why Mozart was great at what he did.

  

  Carlo Grante
  • Study
  • Training
  • Needs

• Most of the time I'm thinking, I'm glad that scene was improvised.

  

  Larry David
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Scene

• Say what you will about Americans, but one thing they are not is passive. The Bush administration may have pushed through the Patriot Act weeks after 11 September, but, as the American public got to grips with how the law was affecting their individual rights, their protests grew loud and angry.

  

  Heather Brooke
  • American Public
  • Patriot Act
  • Bush administration

• I didn't get too many people out in that first one here last year.

  

  Bob Wickman
  • People
  • Last Year

• Crazy world it was where a woman showed more worry about him poking his eye out with a sword than she did about him taking fifty-yard leaps from one building to another.

  

  Brandon Mull
  • Woman
  • Worry
  • Building

• Giving a minimum wage reduces inequality significantly.

  

  Winnie Byanyima
  • Inequality
  • Minimum
  • Significantly