Quotes About Disadvantage

I'm used to compete at 135 pounds, and I know I will always be shorter than my opponents.

The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor.

When someone can't afford to wear shoes, it's not just about them not having shoes on that day. It's about a cycle of poverty that exists within their community.

That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.

Poverty leads to hardship and failure.

Instead of promoting inherited wealth for the few, I want to tackle inherited disadvantage for the many.

We need an education system that prepares people to seize the opportunities of the 21st century - from tackling the inequality that sees the poorest kids arriving at school at a disadvantage from the age of five to creating a truly lifelong learning system to help people reskill and retrain as they're living longer and working longer.

Forwards are either too tall, and I'm too quick for them, or guards are too small, and I shoot over them.

It's basketball, man. It's being smart, using your size as an advantage. I can get into people. I can get into your stomach, so you can't back me down. I can stay in front of you, I can move my feet, I can be aggressive. People don't understand that it can be a disadvantage being tall, too.

If I had to compete against someone almost two feet taller than me, I wouldn't want to play.

Schooling—unequal as it is in America—plays only a minor role in alleviating or creating test score gaps.

The achievement gap between children from high income and low income families is roughly 30-40% larger among children born in 2001 than among those born 25 years ago. The class gap among students entering kindergarten was two to three times higher than the racial gap.

often within a single school, AP and other advanced courses tend to separate privileged from less privileged kids.

Those living in palaces have always had different agendas to those living in shacks, and that is unlikely to change in the twenty-first century.

Money comes to money, and poverty to poverty. Education comes to education, and ignorance to ignorance.

It was hard to accept that the first man in my life would do things that were to my disadvantage if they were to his advantage. Yet it was a revelation that somehow set me free.

Some kids don't know where they'll spend the night. How can we expect them to focus on learning?

There is a triple purpose to the existence of White privilege: (1) to advantage White Americans, (2) to disadvantage persons of color, and (3) to attribute causes to individual deficiencies, thereby relieving White society of responsibility for perpetuating inequality.

These organizational policies and practices may appear neutral and nondiscriminatory in nature because they are applied to everyone equally, but their effects are to disadvantage certain groups while advantaging others.

A fool acquires knowledge only to his own disadvantage. It destroys what good he has, and turns his brains.

Special knowledge is a terrible disadvantage.

80 percent of learning is visual, so children who can't afford vision correction are at such a disadvantage.

Equestrian horses have a life better than 80 percent of Moroccans

Instead of helping a lucky few to escape disadvantage, a Labour government will aim to abolish poverty completely and create a more equal society, raising the living standards and well-being of all.