Quotes About Inequality

The lynched relative; the buried son or daughter killed at the hands of the police; the millions locked away to rot in prisons; the children languishing in failed schools; the smothering, concentrated poverty passed down from generation to generation; and the indifference to lives lived in the shadows of the American dream are generally understood as exceptions to the American story, not the rule. Blasphemous facts must be banished from view by a host of public rituals and incantations.

The whites that wanted to live like the blacks were as immoral as you could imagine. Ask any black and they will tell you that you haven't lived until you have been a nigger on a Saturday night.

The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others.

In his novels from beginning to end, Dickens is making the same point always: that to the English governing classes the people they govern are not real.

Whether actors express "resentment" or "hostility" toward minorities is largely irrelevant for the maintenance of white privilege.

When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.

When life is cheap death is rich.

Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers-- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.

Equal wealth and equal opportunities of culture...have simply made us all members of one class.

And in heaven's name, who are the public enemies?" exclaimed Dr. Leete. "Are they France, England Germany or hunger, cold and nakedness?

The ruling class] sees people in the working class as being almost animals. It sees itself as being synonymous with civilization and its cultivation as coming from its natural abilities and not from its wealth and privileged opportunities. It doesn't see that the way in which it monopolizes these things distorts the culture it derives from them and that this makes its culture irrational and an enemy of civilization.

Half the world is screaming for water and freedom when the other half is ordering cocktails and complaining about the service.

Them that's got shall get,Them that's not shall lose,So the Bible said, and it still is news.Mama may have,Papa may have,But God bless the child that's got his own!

Racial superiority is a mere pigment of the imagination.

It's the same the whole world over,It's the poor wot gets the blame,It's the rich wot gets the pleasure,Ain't it all a bloomin' shame?

There's nothing surer,The rich get rich and the poor get poorer,In the meantime, in between time,Ain't we got fun.

The sleep of a laboring man is sweet… but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

Water flows uphill towards money.

The poor are poor because the rich are rich.

Without love, the rich and poor live in the same house.

One man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.

The poor shall never cease out of the land.

Unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.

What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces and grind the faces of the poor?