Quotes About Inequality

Because the pure girls get rescued. Mary Lou felt something she didn't let herself feel often. She was well and truly pissed off. Why do girls have to be all pure and innocent and good? Why don't guys have to be?

You know who's getting hurt? Workers. Poor people. Immigrants. Every day. It's a rigged game, Evie. The people at the top say they believe in the people at the bottom until those people try to climb up. And then the people at the top step on the hands of the climbing people they claim to believe in and cast them down the ladder.

France] may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant.

Only the rich can stand for office.

A certain inequality in regard to property still exists in a socialist society. But in a socialist society there is no unemployment, no exploitation, no oppression of nationalities.

Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.

We should make the poor uncomfortable and kick them out of poverty.

Society is not homogeneous, and those who do not deliberately close their eyes have to recognize that men differ greatly from one another from the physical, moral, and intellectual viewpoints.

The very mudsills of society. We call them slaves. But I will not characterize that class at the North with that term; but you have it. It is there, it is everywhere, it is eternal.

A 'social justice' society is a conflict which locks beneficiaries and victims alike in a struggle without end. It becomes a society torn apart by resentment over the wealth of capitalists.

The more humanity owes the poor man, the more society denies him.

The structure of apartheid is still rooted in the Haitian society. When you have apartheid, you don't see those behind the walls. That is the reality of Haiti.

Men lived like fishes; the great ones devoured the small.

The police become necessary in human society Only at that junction in human society Where it is split between those who have and those who ain't got

Hitherto, every form of society has been based ... on the antagonism of oppressing and oppressed classes.

The middle class is collapsing and we are moving toward an oligarchic form of society, where the billionaires will control the economy and the political life of the country.

Demonisation is the ideological backbone of an unequal society.

America is about class. To pretend that it isn't is very ignorant. No society has ever existed without some kind of a ruling class.

On balance, the financial system subracts value from society

Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

People of color, particularly African Americans, feel the stigma more keenly. In a race-conscious society, some don't want to be perceived as having yet another deficit.

It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme.

Class is a way of looking at society that divides people into different categories based on how much money they're willing to make.

But we have created a society that does not allow opportunities for those people to take care of themselves because we have denied them those opportunities.