Quotes About Inequality

If you're graduating from high school, and you come from a lower income family, you're effectively given two options. One is get a four-year college degree; two is work at a low-wage job, potentially for the rest of your life. We've got to do better on that front. We have to provide more options.

The powerful, in sooth, and the wealthy, are Gods to those of mortals who are unblest.

we women are the most pathetic. First of all, we have to buy a husband. Spend vast amounts of money, just to get a master for our body – to add insult to injury.

Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, A herb most bruised is woman.

It [being very rich] used to worry me, and I thought it wrong to have so many beautiful things when others had nothing. Now I realize that it is possible for the rich to sin by coveting the privileges of the poor. The poor have always been the favourites of God and his saints, but I believe that is is one of the special achievements of Grace to sanctify the whole of life, riches included.

Mr. Schultz, you're jealous of whispering Glades. And why wouldn't I be seeing all that dough going on relations they've hated all their lives, while the pets who've loved them and stood by them , never asked no questions, never complained, rich or poor, sickness or health, get buried anyhow like animals?

Ah well, to the journalist every country is rich.

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

Rich girls don't marry poor boys, Jay Gatsby

One thin's sure and nothing's surer The rich get richer and the poor get — children. In the meantime, In between time...

Whenever you feel like criticzing any one, he told me, just remember that all the people in this world haven´t had the advantages that you've had.

Cada vez que creas que tienes que criticar a alguien, me dijo, solo recuerda que no toda la gente de este mundo ha contado con las ventajas de que tú has gozado.

I matched my grey eyes against his brown ones for guile, my young golf-and-tennis heart-beats against his, which must be slowing a little after years of over-work. And I planned and I contrived and I plotted - any woman can tell you - but it never came to anything, as you will see. I still like to think that if he'd been a poor boy and nearer my age I could manage it, but of course the real truth was that I had nothing to offer that he didn't have.

They don't think uneducated people should be highly paid, but they won't see that if they don't pay the uneducated people their children are going to be uneducated too, and we're going round and round in a circle.

It's essentially cleaner to be corrupt and rich than it is to be innocent and poor.

Hay una cosa segura, más segura que ninguna: los ricos hacen dinero y los pobres hacen… niños

They don't think uneducated people should be highly paid, but they won't see that if they don't pay the uneducated people their children are going to be uneducated too, and we're going round and round in a circle. That—is

I'm sick of a system where the richest man gets the most beautiful girl if he wants her, where the artist without an income has to sell his talents to a button manufacturer.

Una cosa es segura, y nada lo es más: los ricos crían riqueza, y los pobres crían... hijos.

gray, scrawny Italian child

Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, he told me, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.

The rich get richer and the poor get—children.

I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool—that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

El sentido fundamental de la buena educación es inequitativamente repartido al nacer.