Quotes About Inequality

I am not saying do not give people equal health services but do not pretend that giving more money for diabetes or chronic diseases means you are going to deal with the origins of health inequalities.

The Royal Ballet is the best paid company, but the dancers get nothing. The stage crew get paid three times more than the dancers, and they have a job for life - dancers only have 10 years.

Class envy is dangerous.

There are people getting screwed in our country every single second, minute, hour of the day. And if by our work, we can decrease that number, we'll make a difference; we'll be doing our jobs.

Listen, not everybody can afford to get a great lawyer and defend yourself against something that you didn't do.

We pay a lot for our court service, but it's not enough. Courts are under-resourced, which leads to delayed justice - particularly in criminal courts.

You have to say - and I do - that anything that blocks that cheapest possible point-of-care delivery of health is wrong.

The way the Democrats go about seeking equality is to lower people at the top.

I think one of the problems the Democrats have today is that they are an elitist party.

We live in a very classist society, and it's sad and depressing.

Every child must have a childhood they deserve. But unfortunately, millions of children are deprived childhood and their dreams crushed under the burden of poverty.

I'm black. I grew up poor. I grew up in New York during the stop-and-frisk era. I've been stopped because I fit a description before.

You have to be very poor and desperate, or very rich, or lucky, to live in Islington. We don't have the people in the middle, the people who serve the community.

If you feel more emotion looking at a picture of queuing lorries than a picture of desperate humans living in a lay-by, you need to check your bedtime routine for someone beating you round the head with a meat tenderiser.

Desperation is a fact of life in many poor, overcrowded countries.

Capitalism is destroying the world.

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.

Race always comes up in the conversation of Detroit.

I want to be there for all those who are left behind in this world, whether it's because they are born poor, born a woman, or born in an area affected by devastation.

At the top, successful blacks, like David Lammy and Diane Abbot, have merged effortlessly into what continues to be a largely white elite: they have studied at Oxbridge and gone on to Oxbridge-style careers, such as that of an MP. But they have done so at the cost of losing much of their credibility with blacks on the street and in the ghettos.

The very rich, very poor, and the very famous get the worst medical care. The very rich can buy it, the very poor can't get any, and the very famous can dictate it.

In 1900, 180-plus out of every 1,000 African-American babies died.

A man is just as dead if he dies of malnutrition as of bullets.

Are there differences between black actors' opportunities and white actors' opportunities? Yes, there are. It's been said.