Quotes About Inequality

Capitalism places every man in competition with his fellows for a share of the available wealth. A few people accumulate big piles, but most do not. The sense of community falls victim to this struggle.

The privileged classes can afford psychoanalysis and whiskey. Whereas all we get is sermons and sour wine. This is manifestly unfair. I protest, silently.

You know, I've been around the ruling class all my life, and I've been quite aware of their total contempt for the people of the country.

The Ministry places a rather higher value on my life than yours, I'm afraid.

Slavery is an obscenity. It is not just stealing someone's labor; it is the theft of an entire life.

Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.

If you are from an ordinary working class family, life is just much harder than many people in politics realise.

True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.

I am convinced, the longer I live, that life & its blessings are not so entirely unjustly distributed, are [as] when we are suffering greatly, we are inclined to suppose.

Life's not fair, is it? Some of us drink champagne in the fast lane, and some of us eat our sandwiches by the loose chippings on the A597.

Life is not fair, so why should I make a course that is fair.

As an African American child growing up in the segregated South, I was told, one way or another, almost every day of my life, that I wasn't as good as a white child.

Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.

Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs.

Whether you're rich or poor, life's still cold-blooded.

I was sentenced to life plus 30 years by an all-White jury. What I saw in prison was wall-to-wall Black flesh in chains. Women caged in cells. But we're the terrorists. It just doesn't make sense.

If you look at the human condition today, not everyone is well fed, has access to good medical care, or the physical basics that provide for a healthy and a happy life.

Manila is a city of extremes. The poor are very poor and the rich very rich. A constant reminder to the rich that there is another side to life.

How well you do in life shouldn't depend on how well your parents did.

Most of us came here in chains and most of you came here to escape your chains. Your freedom was our slavery, and therein lies the bitter difference in the way we look at life.

I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it.

The burden of poverty isn't just that you don't always have the things you need, it's the feeling of being embarrassed every day of your life, and you'd do anything to lift that burden.

There are very few people on top of life, and the rest of us don't like them very much.

Life is unfair but remember sometimes it is unfair in your favour.