Quotes About Inequality

Neither Western donor countries like the U.S. nor poor recipients like Cameroon care much about Africans who are poor, rural and female.

Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere; some say the poorest in the world.

As America has grown less economically equal, a citizen's ability to move upward has fallen behind that of citizens in other Western democracies. We are no longer the country where anyone can become anything.

When it comes to silencing women, Western culture has had thousands of years of practice.

Taking the entire globe, if North America and Western Europe can be called the 'cities of the world', then Asia, Africa and Latin America constitute 'the rural areas of the world'.

Most of the people who make decisions about global health are in the U.S. and Western Europe. There, the mental health care system is dominated by highly trained, expensive professionals in big hospitals, who often see patients over long periods of time. This simply can't be done in rural Africa or India. Who the hell can afford that kind of care?

In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.

We know that Brexit would make our poorest communities poorer still. That it would make the powerless even less able to effect change.

I think a lot of women have felt really powerless.

Decolonization actually boosted slavery. As foreign powers withdrew from the colonies, people were enslaved by their own countrymen. And we see it in Africa, we see it in Asia.

I'm not the kind of writer who's able to block out the world around me. I'm mindful of our own haves and have-nots, how our culture often blames and punishes the have-nots. I worry about our precarious economic and political climate.

Black women have been screaming about famous predators like R&B singer R. Kelly, who allegedly preys on black girls, for well over a decade to no avail.

With sad, depressing predictability, the children of today's underclass become tomorrow's criminals and dropouts.

In 1936, John Maynard Keynes predicted the 'euthanasia of the rentier' before the end of the 20th century. It did not happen.

Half a million women die each year around the world in pregnancy. It's not biology that kills them so much as neglect.

My children almost died during my pregnancy because doctors wouldn't take my concerns seriously, dismissing me as just another black woman on Medicaid.

There's prejudice and poverty in Hungary as there is in every country.

There's still a really divisive residue in our nation that's called racism and prejudice and oppression and sexism.

I don't think the bottom beats the top very often in the Premier League, if ever.

I think the biggest thing in the Premier League is the divide between the people who have and the people who haven't.

The Labour perspective is often very preoccupied with either the super-rich or those who don't have work - but doesn't have nearly enough to say to those who do have work, on incomes that may not mean they get benefits or tax credits, but are not well off people.

We all pay too much for health care. Far too many do not go to the doctor or fill a prescription because it simply costs too much.

He that offereth sacrifice of the goods of the poor is as one that sacrificeth the son in the presence of his father.

It cannot be Pakistan of Quaid and Iqbal where children of the elite study in prestigious educational institutions while those of resourceless segments deprived of education due to difficulties.