Quotes About Inequality

For the twenty million Americans who are hungry tonight, for the homeless freezing tonight, literature is as useless as a knowledge of astronomy.

Malnutrition can be as common in poverty as in wealth, one for the lack of food, the other for the lack of knowledge of food.

Then I began to think that it is very true which is commonly said that the one-half of the world knoweth not how the other half liveth.

If a group of people - leaders - can convince a group of folk who barely have a pot to piss in that the rich shouldn't be taxed-- THAT is leadership!

Real Revolution Starts At Learning, If You're Not Angry, Then You Are Not Paying Attention.

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

Laws are always useful to those who possess and vexatious to those who have nothing.

We don't have any real justice in the legal system, you never see a headline that reads, Millionaire Gets Death Sentence.

The USA legal system is designed to enrich lawyers, protect the government and corporations, and shaft the general public.

The rich control our politics to a huge extend. In return they get tax cuts and deregulation. It's been and is an amazing ride for the rich.

La mala salud causa pobreza y la pobreza contribuye a empeorar la salud

The rich world dominates the training of Ph.D. economists, and the students of rich-world Ph.D. programs dominate the international institutions like the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, which have the lead in advising poor countries on how to break out of poverty.

Illegal' takes on a whole new meaning when you're loaded like Barnes. The rich have a separate rule book. To them if it makes money, it can't be wrong.

gap between average employee and CEO pay is largest in the financial industry and smallest in technology.

History is written by the rich, and so the poor get blamed for everything.

Recall that the minimum wage was initially conceived as a method to exclude undesirables from the workforce.

Democracy is for those who can buy it.

If you go on teaching people that life is cheap, and leave them to rot in ghettos and jails, they may one day feel justified in coming back to rob and kill you. Duh!

You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course.

I'm going to bed tonight grateful for warmth, an advantage so expected it barely registers. (…) I won't defile my blessings by imagining that I deserve them. Until every human receives the dignity I casually enjoy, I pray my heart aches with tension and my belly rumbles for injustice.

780 million people lack basic water sanitation, which results in disease, death, wastewater for drinking, and loss of immunity.[17] Americans consume twenty-six billion liters of bottled water a year.[18] We spend more annually on trash bags than nearly half the world spends on all goods combined.

The poor world is begging for mercy like Bartimaus, while the rich world is asking for more favor like James and John.

Excess has impaired perspective in America; we are the richest people on earth, praying to get richer. We're tangled in unmanageable debt while feeding the machine, because we feel entitled to more. What does it communicate when half the global population lives on less than $2 a day, and we can't manage a fulfilling life on twenty-five thousand times that amount? Fifty thousand times that amount?

Snobbery works in both directions—if you're rich, thinking you're better than those who aren't is as equally lame as being broke and thinking you're better than those who are rich.