Quotes About Inequality

America was defined by "private opulence and public squalor.

The tragedy for the millions of new lower-caste voters is that their representatives, for whom they dutifully vote en masse, have looted the public coffers and become immensely rich and powerful while mouthing slogans about the oppression of their people.

Only 13% of people in households making over $100,000 were laid off or furloughed, compared with 39% in households making less than $40,000.

At the end of April 2020, low-income and middle-income countries, which have 84% of the world's population, were home to just 14% of the world's known deaths from Covid-19.

Bhutto's case was not a trial of murder, rather it was the overt murder of a trial -

Ricos y pobres, parece que los estadounidenses ven la bancarrota como un «derecho inalienable», casi en igualdad de condiciones con «la vida, la libertad y la búsqueda de la felicidad».

La democracia, además, solo existirá en América cuando los pueblos sean realmente libres para escoger, cuando los humildes no estén reducidos —por el hambre, la desigualdad social, el analfabetismo y los sistemas jurídicos—

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.

Famine is a consequence of poverty.

We need global tax justice, not charitable scraps dictated by the fancies of the elite.

If you've got a huge Hollywood star in your film, they're getting $32 million, and everyone else gets their bus fare.

My family was a poor farming family, and we lived under absolute segregation.

What the 'supposed 99 percent' don't realize is that they are better off if there are more fat cats, not less.

Few politicians and analysts understand the very real fault lines among Asian sub-groups: Some Asians have done very well for themselves. A lot of them have not.

But he like my mother, had certainly come to know that those who work the most do not make the most money. It was the fault of the rich, it seemed, but just how he did not know.

Listen friends, you have to face the truth: You are never going to be rich... The system is rigged in favor of the few, and your name is not among them, not now and not ever.

I always look at it like favor isn't fair.

My debut feature, 'The Baby-Sitters Club,' got good reviews and made good money for what it cost. But it took me six years to get to direct my second feature. I think a guy would have had another movie out the same year.

When people can't feed their children, nothing else positive happens. You don't have to look farther than the United States to see that.

Usually, cheap food is not nutritious. You're feeding people, but you're not really feeding people something that is good for them.

Whenever there are some who have more opportunities than others, this feeds corruption.

When an actor charges high fees, nobody says anything. But when an actress does the same, it becomes news.

For every movie that you go see, how many leading male roles are there in any given movie, and how many leading female roles are there? There may be 5 or 6 really good roles for guys and maybe one for a woman. And it doesn't even matter if you're 25. That's just the logistics.

It is bad enough to be white and poor; it is worse still to be black, or brown, and female, and young, and poor. Simply said, race makes class hurt more.