Quotes About Inequality

The slaves had food stamps, too. It was called 'scraps from Massa's table.'

We need to tackle energy poverty.

Since I became First Minister, I have made clear my priority to alleviate poverty and tackle inequality in Scotland. Ensuring that everyone can do better in life will not only make Scotland fairer, but it will also make it a more prosperous place.

It's not enough to tackle just the symptoms of poverty. You have to tackle the causes of poverty.

We need to invest in healthcare, in education, in the sciences. And in so doing, we will tackle one of the most intractable problems we face, which is gross wealth inequality. We can't fight climate change without dealing with inequality in our countries and between our countries.

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.

Tackling the extreme gap between the rich and the poor and tackling climate change is part of the same struggle.

The importance of tackling inequality in Africa cannot be overstated.

I have a rule: I want the pilot flying me up in the air at 30,000 feet to make more than a guy working at Taco Bell.

My parents worked their tails off, but we weren't the poorest people in town. Some people I went to school with, you could tell they were dirt poor.

Capitalism has shortfalls. It doesn't necessarily take care of the poor, and it underfunds innovation, so we have to offset that.

I've been talking to a lot of young people, especially here in America. I let them know that the people who they're competing with for opportunities live all over the place. They're probably not in your city, state, or country; they are hungry, and they are grinding! Some of the things that a lot of us take for granted, these people don't.

We all got driven out of Manhattan. It was a very conducive place for artists when I was growing up, and now it's definitely not. The city has been completely taken over by the rich.

Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry.

The Catholic Church is wealthier than Coca-Cola, but takes from some of the poorest people in the world.

You know what I have noticed? And this is really sad. Flying first class is less scary than flying coach. They speak to you and they're so nice to you and they want to help you and they know you want a drink before the plane takes off. And they bring it to you without asking. If you're sitting in coach and hoping for a drink, good luck.

I just think that - when a country needs more income and we do, we're only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that - that - when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it.

The poor man looks upon the law as an enemy, not as a friend. For him, the law is always taking something away.

People talk about places like Mumbai as a tale of two cities, as if the rich and poor don't have anything to do with each other.

When you look at Mark Zuckerberg and Snapchat and all these twentysomething billionaires, it's really kind of fascinating; a classic tale of the haves and have-nots.

'The Handmaid's Tale' will blow people away.

The day I stopped drinking milk' is a very sensitive story telling the tale of how we forget what is 'normal' for us falls under the category of 'expensive' or 'unaffordable' for middle or poor class.

For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.

There is a lot of talent in our slums.