Browsing Quotes With Tag: inequality (4)
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And you may not know it, my friends, but it is estimated that we spend $500,000 to kill each enemy soldier, while we spend only fifty-three dollars for each person classified as poor, and much of that fifty-three dollars goes for salaries to people that are not poor. So I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor, and attack it as such.
Speaker: Martin Luther King Jr.Posted: 10 Nov 2014 at 10:59 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
One of the basic assumptions of capitalism is that those who earn huge sums of money must be worth it.
Speaker: Robert ReichSource: AftershockPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 10:42 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Few fictions of modern economic life are more assiduously defended than the central importance of the Street to the well-being of the rest of us.
Speaker: Robert ReichSource: AftershockPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 10:41 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Being rich now means having enough money that you don’t have to encounter anyone who isn’t.
Speaker: Robert ReichSource: AftershockPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 10:41 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!