Quotes About Inequality

Working at the Food Bank with my kids is an eye-opener. The face of hunger isn't the bum on the street drinking Sterno; it's the working poor. They don't look any different, they don't behave any differently, they're not really any less educated. They are incredibly less privileged, and that's it.

Compared to people in Africa, I think we've all had privileged upbringings.

You must get engaged with people who are far less privileged than you. I think you must devote your time if not your resources... Because it is very, very important from the point of view of the development of our country.

I'm ashamed to say that I'm from a very privileged background.

I am privileged to have the kind of platform I do and the kind of support I do. A lot of women in this country don't have that.

Mark Zuckerberg is a rich white dude from a really privileged background.

Our democracies are increasingly captured by a ruling class that seeks to perpetuate its privileges.

You don't see black people winning Nobel prizes for physics or economics or any of the industries or institutions that shape the way the world operates.

The chief problem of low-income farmers is poverty.

The thing about a real economy is that it actually is like the game of Monopoly in the sense that when one person has all the money, the game is over. And in a game of Monopoly, of course, that's quite charming, but in a real economy, it's much more problematic.

An egalitarian educational system is necessarily opposed to meritocracy and reward for achievement. It is inevitably opposed to procedures that might reveal differing levels of achievement.

In the Saudi system, women are considered inferior. No matter our age, we have male guardians. We must get permission from men to attend school, to work, to marry, to travel overseas - even to have basic medical procedures.

When you grow up where healthy food isn't easily accessible, you eat a lot of processed food and whatever else is available - McDonalds, fast food, cheap food.

While one can't always begrudge the wealth of people who have at least produced something of value, the rich of the financial world don't make anything but more money. They're not creative, aside from, perhaps, in accounting.

Our social model means economic growth all too often involves concentrating wealth produced by the many into the bank accounts of the few, without improving the lives of the majority.

The bottom line is that female writers aren't being given enough opportunities by male producers.

Well, the film industry is completely sexist and completely class-biased. It's not something I get on the ground level, it's more from financiers and producers and distributors. It's a way of dealing with you that is essentially patronising: I know better than you.

Why is it that the producers can do anything and get away with it, and the actors are held accountable for everything? The makers often stop actors' payments, too. Everything is in their favour in the contract.

The world produces enough food for everyone. Why are one billion people going hungry?

A little over 5% of the world's population produces almost 29% of the world's goods and services.

An infernal machine that produces every minute an impressive amount of poor, 26 million poor in 10 years are 2.6 million per year of new poor, this is the road, well, the road to hell.

There are a lot of people who don't contribute anything to consumption and production.

Improving SME productivity translates into more and better paying jobs, distributed across less fortunate sections of the economy.

Along with the rise of inequality, the slowdown in productivity growth, and the shrinking of the middle class, the spiraling cost of living has become a central facet of American economic life.