Winnie Byanyima Quotes
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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 -
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 -
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 -
Income inequality is worse in towns run by Democrat mayors than in towns run by Republican mayors.
Rand Paul -
You get yourself up for it somehow, and your endurance and the crowd gets you up, too.
Janet Jackson -
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
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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 -
Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.
William Dean Howells -
I thought I was gonna be in the minimum-wage working world all my life.
Henry Rollins Black Flag -
We're dealing with a crisis of inequality, of joblessness, of underemployment.
Avi Lewis -
Keep a minimum of 15” between coffee tables and sofas.
Alexa Hampton -
Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.
Adam Phillips
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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 -
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 -
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 -
There are two kinds of people who do martial arts: those who practice a thousand different kicks one time each, and those who practice one kick a thousand times minimum. You can guess which group I belong to.
Georges St-Pierre -
In the US a child born into a poor family will become a poor adult. The american dream is just that - it is not true, because of the level of extreme inequality.
Winnie Byanyima -
Every dollar that the boss did not work for, one of us worked for a dollar and didn't get it.
William C. Dudley
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For me, being leftist means fighting against injustice and inequality but, most of all, we want to live well.
Evo Morales -
Las Vegas was such a teeny, tiny place.
Eydie Gorme -
Christmas was coming. One morning in mid-December, Hogwarts woke to find itself covered in several feet of snow. The lake froze solid and the Weasley twins were punished for bewitching several snowballs so that they followed Quirrell around, bouncing off the back of his turban.
Joanne Rowling -
I avoid the media circus, keep my head down and try to keep growing and learning things.
Georgie Fame -
The script looks huge when you first get it, but you just have to go home and drill the lines out. The more you read it, the shorter it gets. I usually read it at least four times.
Ray Fearon -
Giving a minimum wage reduces inequality significantly.
Winnie Byanyima