Quotes About Inequality

They politics like ours profess, the greater prey upon the less.

European authors often write books about the rest of the world that profess a vision of shared humanity but fall far short, casting the other as exotic or dangerous.

Nepotism exists - not just in Bollywood but in every profession in India.

We always had power shortages in the country. I was living right next to the border with China, and it was the only country I could compare to my own. When I looked across the river, it was a completely different world - there were no people dying. It looked like a place full of colour, and that's what confused me.

My mum was quite poor, and my dad was rich. She didn't dig that, so she left him.

I learnt a hard fact: that dignity is a luxury in our country.

Society might have been better off without them, but we are supposed to look after the disadvantaged, and so we do it. But it doesn't help the society.

I grew up in small-town America, black, disadvantaged.

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.

It's amazing, the number of people who don't have passports, who can't read, who can't write. It's sick actually. It's disgusting.

Pay disparity has always been there.

I hate luxury for luxury's sake. I find it not just brash but societally disruptive. It's just another mechanism of manufacturing discontent by building a thing that most people want but can never have.

This country has so much wealth and so much poverty, and that seemed wrong to me. 'Evicted' was my Ph.D. dissertation.

We're all complaining about diversity in Hollywood, but we've got to address the colorism within the black community of Hollywood first.

This nation is being divided into black and white, and the present system encourages this.

Mankind has been and is divided into three parts: the Haves, the Have-Nots, and the Have-a-Little, Want Mores.

I don't think we're as divided as many in the elite would have us believe.

Why are there not cabs in Edmonton? Why are there cabs in central London but not here? And if they're going to be here, they should be cheaper. And travelcards, they're expensive.

The rich don't exploit the poor. They just out-compete them.

Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.

Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that.

Being exposed to the enlisted Army was an eye-opener. I thought everyone was like me, but the enlisted Army is a constituency of the dispossessed.

The rise of Donald Trump has exposed a deep chasm in America between the haves and have-nots.