Quotes About Inequality

Film, therefore, is part of society, not distant from it, easy to experience for people regardless of class.

No society can surely be flourishing and happy of which by far the greater part of the numbers are poor and miserable.

The sins of women and children, domestic servants and the weak, the poor and the ignorant, are the sins of the husbands and fathers, the masters, the strong and the rich and the educated.

There are only two families in the world as a Grandmother of mine used to say the haves and the have-nots.

What is a Communist? One who hath yearnings for equal division of unequal earnings.

Society is composed of two great classes: those who have more dinners than appetite and those who have more appetite than dinners.

It's well proven that if you have equality in society, society flourishes, and if you have inequality, it doesn't. So it's good for everybody.

We don't live in a society that has genuine equality, and every woman we know has experienced that.

If I am hungry, that is a material problem; if someone else is hungry, that is a spiritual problem.

When you have a spiritual foundation, you look at poverty differently then.

For the poor, the economic is spiritual.

There are various kinds of savagery: emotional, spiritual, economic, and cultural savagery.

Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.

When we got back to the U.S., I wanted to kiss the ground after seeing what people in other countries are denied or don't have.

I feel like football players are overworked and underpaid compared to any other sports.

A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues.

It was bad enough to have toppled from the Olympic heights to make my living competing with animals. But the competition wasn't even fair. No man could beat a race horse, not even for 100 yards.

I'm enjoying the money, the big house, the cars; what ghetto kid wouldn't?

For most Americans, economic growth is a spectator sport.

As blacks, all we got is sports and entertainment. That's the only way out the hood sometimes.

Men still get a lot more opportunity. It is still a big part of the old boy network... They have more companies they can get money from.

Every year there's an Oscar and Grammy and we celebrate those shows. We do the same in the U.S about sports schools and colleges. The same thing doesn't happen for tech and STEM.

Trotsky once wrote: How many Aristoteles are herding swine? And how many swineherds are sitting on thrones? Class society impoverishes people, not just materially but psychologically. The lives of millions of human beings are confined to the narrowest limits. Their mental horizons are stunted. Socialism would release all the colossal potential that is being wasted by capitalism.

I was reading Punch or The London Charivari, an English magazine of art and comedy. The pictures showed many kinds of people. The ugliest and most comical ae Scots, Irish, foreign, poor, servants, rich folk who have been poor until very recently, small men, old unmarried women and Socialists. The Socialists are the ugliest, very dirty and hairy with weak chins, and seem to spend their time grumbling to other people at street corners.