Quotes About Inequality

Income inequality is one thing, but a permanent division into the haves and have-nots is an entirely different thing - and much less acceptable.

We have this kind of revolving door, we don't have a permanent class of millionaires in America like a lot of other countries.

A permanent division of labor inevitably creates occupational and class inequality and conflict.

In fact, the class divide in the black community is now seen by some as a permanent aspect of our existence.

The first, and overarching, count in the new indictment is that slavery permitted one group of people to exercise unrestrained personal domination over another group of people.

For many gay and bisexual men of color, economic inequalities add to the pernicious effects of oppression and homophobia.

Nothing could be more insulting to me than the concept of civil rights. It means perpetual second-class citizenship for me and my kind.

Racism plagued America throughout the '60s, into the '70s, through the '80s; it continued in the '90s and in the first decade of the new millennium; and it persists today.

Clearly, there are persistent differences in our country.

Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of the government.

Today, it seems as though inequality is implicitly tolerated,

there is a global rejection of society as it presently exists together with acceptance of the mechanisms that produce that society. De facto inequalities are rejected, but the mechanisms that generate inequality in general are implicitly recognized.

The great are only great because we are on our knees. Let us rise

la propriété, c'est le vol!

An empty stomach knows no morality.

Laws! We know what they are, and what they are worth! Spider webs for the rich and powerful, steel chains for the weak and poor, fishing nets in the hands of the government.

What, I ask, has the fixed and solid nature of the earth to do with the right of appropriation? (...) But the creator of the land does not sell it: he gives it; and, in giving it, he is no respecter of persons. Why, then, are some of his children regarded as legitimate, while others are treated as bastards? If the equality of shares was an original right, why is the inequality of conditions a posthumous right?

The civilised labourer who gives his best effort for a bit of bread, who builds a palace and sleeps in a stable, who weaves rich fabrics and dresses in rags, and who produces everything and does without everything, is not free.

Mülkiyet h?rs?zl?kt?r.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Oligarchy: A government resting on a valuation of property, in which the rich have power and the poor man is deprived of it.

Ninguna revolución ha logrado traer prosperidad a América Latina. Sólo ha traído corrupción (la revolución ha derivado en robolución), dictadura y privilegios para la casta gobernante a expensas del grueso de la población sumergida en la pobreza. Nuestras revoluciones no han producido otra cosa que miseria moral, política, económica y cultural.

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.