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“When policies increase inequality of wealth, they increase the power of the wealthy in the policy-making arena, which leads to *more* policies which increase inequality - an infinity loop that undermines democracy.” @LFLopezCalva @UNDP at Notre Dame Inequality Conference 
“We know inequality is bad: everyone now agrees that. We even know what to do about it. But this is not being done. Why? Because those at the top are stopping it happening. The problem of inequality is a problem of power.” @Winnie_Byanyima @Oxfam, Notre Dame Inequality Conference
”It was not an *accident*: inequality is the result of a deliberate planned attack on the bargaining power of ordinary people, to further the asymetry of power, to rig the economy for the rich against everyone else.” @TheaLeeEPI @EconomicPolicy, Notre Dame Inequality Conference.
“We suffer from deliberate amnesia about historical policies that restrained excessive concentration of wealth. What today is described as impossible or extreme - like high marginal tax rates & strong unions - were, not long ago, consensus. And they worked!” Historian @dgraffnd
“Does anyone think that Amazon finally agreed a 15$ minimum wage because they woke up nicer people? The @fightfor15 is an example of how through collective organising & through shifting the narrative we can win change & build our collective power to #fightinequality.” @cjgrimes
“We have all the information we need about how bad inequality is: we have it in our heads, but we need it in our hearts. #FightInequality is about unity: stopping us ordinary people fighting others like us, & starting to fight the powers who dominate & dispossess us.” -@hektanon
“We in the Poor People’s Campaign are not here just to tell our sad stories, or be mobilised by others: it’s not just our plight, it’s our *insight* & our *fight*. As Dr King said, ‘we’ll make the power structures say yes when they are really desirous of saying no.’” @liztheo
“When people were thrown out of their homes, & would have died on the streets, we organised together to reoccupy those homes. We broke the sanctity of property & the sanctity of law, for the sanctity of life. In breaking bad laws we are in great company!” - @liztheo at Notre Dame
