Quotes About Inequality

The rich cannot accumulate wealth without the co-operation of the poor in society.

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

Capitalism is a social cancer. It has always been a social cancer. It is the disease of society. It is the malignancy of society.

Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side; of the face can smile while the other is pinched.

The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society.

If we save the planet and have a society of inequality, we wouldn't have saved much.

Wealth is so concentrated that a large segment of society is virtually unaware of its existence.

No one deserves his greater natural capacity nor merits a more favorable starting place in society.

There are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics; it's something to do with the social structure of society.

The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evil.

I am Charles Mingus, half black man, not even white enough to pass for nothing but black. I am Charles Mingus, a famed jazzman, but not famed enough to make a living in this society.

Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.

We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy.

The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society.

The wage-earning class the world over are the victims of society.

Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's the superstructure of human society?

el "multiculturalismo" (y el "culturalismo en general), en su esfuerzo por proporcionar un apoyo académico (o, para ser más precisos, una pátina promocional) a la práctica multiculturalista, es en sí mismo un ejercicio de encubrimiento. Lo que intenta tapar y expulsar del debate público es la cruda realidad de la discriminación y la privación sociales.

Todas las medidas emprendidas en nombre del <> se convierten, como tocadas por una varita mágica, en medidas que sirven para enriquecer a ricos y empobrecer a los pobres.

Mientras que los beneficiarios de nuestra peligrosamente desequilibrada, inestable y poco equitativa globalización consideran su libertad sin freno el mejor medio para alcanzar su propia seguridad, sus víctimas directas o colaterales sospechan que su mayor obstáculo para ser libres (y para hacer uso de cualquier libertad que se les pudiera conceder) radica en la inseguridad, que viven como algo horrible y lamentable.

Actualmente, la sexualidad ya no es el epítome del posible placer y la felicidad. Ya no está mistificada positivamente en tanto éxtasis o transgresión, sino negativamente, en tanto fuente de opresión, desigualdad, violencia, abuso e infección letal.

Occupying the bottom end of the inequality ladder, and becoming a 'collateral victim' of a human action or a natural disaster, interact the way the opposite poles of magnets do: they tend to gravitate towards each other.

Prisoners, slaves, women and children, the sick, weak, disabled, animals, the earth itself – all were fair game for the cruel sport of those who had power. It was wrong, it was evil, but it was a fact of life.

That equality is a good thing, a fine goal, may be generally accepted. What is lacking is a sense of the monstrosity of inequality .

There has never been but one question in all civilization-how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work and earn bread and we will eat it.