Quotes About Inequality

I'd have to pick cotton for a year to make what I'd make in a week in L.A.

The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.

I was brought up on a council estate. I know what it's like to be poor.

I grew up on a poor council estate so I know what it feels like not to have the money to dress as you'd like.

Many African-American men are incarcerated. And so African-American women do carry an enormous burden. And traditionally have carried a greater burden than perhaps their white counterparts.

The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.

Americans are literally dying for lack of health care coverage.

Being a woman is really crap.

It's weird how America works. Healthy food costs way more than crap.

The rich are different from you and me because they have more credit.

Capitalism is in crisis.

I take much of the attacks and the criticism toward me as being very class-based, but as Americans we don't like to acknowledge that reality.

We, as black people, we have a lot of crooks.

Aristocracy is always cruel.

I believe our current system of capitalism is slavery by another name.

Hardly anybody realizes that the first couple of chapters of 'Coming Apart' were basically a recapitulation of the argument in 'The Bell Curve.' That's how little people focused on 'The Bell Curve's' real message.

The thing about us businesspeople is that we love our customers rich and our employees poor.

There's two systems of health care: the one for the rich that's really good, then there's the one for the inner city, where they leave ladies in the emergency room unattended for 24 hours until they drop dead.

The poor don't live in functional market economies as the rest of us do, but in political economies where corruption and broken systems extend from local government to moneylenders.

I remember my dad always complaining about getting pulled over. I remember the differences in school systems. I remember seeing police officers, not knowing their names, and knowing that they were there not to protect us, not to serve us, but to watch us.

If our society was a lot wealthier, I think we'd also probably have better education systems - this is pretty intuitive, I think, to make as a claim.

Every day, families in the United States face the stark choice between a roof over their heads and food on the table. Buying health insurance, owning a home, and saving up for college are just too far out of their reach.

Capitalism and democracy are the opposite of each other. Capitalism is a system that guarantees that a few are going to do very well, and everybody else is going to serve the few. Democracy means everybody has a seat at the table. Everybody.

Well, capitalism is going to grow and grow. The nature of it is that the guy who has the most poker chips on the table has more leverage than everyone else. He can eventually outbluff everyone else and outraise everyone else at the table. That's what has happened and it needs to be corrected.