Quotes About Inequality

There's a small amount of super-wealthy people that want to maintain their billions and billions of dollars. Those are the people who are really making the decisions.

Children with no father at home are between four and five times more likely to be poor as the children of married parents, whether they are black or white.

It's easier to blame the person with less power.

When things aren't going well for black people, they blame the government. When things aren't going well for white people, they can't blame the government because the government is supposed to be for them. So they blame black people.

Listen, it's not just 'Full House.' It's across the board in the entertainment industry: women are not paid what men are paid.

Anybody who says that favoritism doesn't exist in Bollywood would be lying.

It's very difficult for me to represent a white player. It just is. Look around. There's very few. I represent a player from Bosnia. But, again, he's international. He looks at it different.

It's absurd: half the movie audience are women, but Hollywood bosses are still aiming for men who are 20.

Poor families are living above their means, in apartments they cannot afford. The thing is, those apartments are already at the bottom of the market.

I came from a social background in Brazil that is very poor. We didn't have anything.

We have no right to luxuries while the poor want bread.

Whenever you go through the length and breadth of our country... you see a long face: you will see the long face of an African woman because she's black, because she's poor.

How can a man help breaking the law when he don't have money to live on?

Brexit is for the richest in our country: they can afford recessions.

For too many, the shot for a brighter future is simply out of reach.

Class still matters in Britain today.

I believe that Britain is becoming more class-conscious, and I quake at the very idea of Old Etonians ruling the world again.

Americans assume all British people have at least one servant.

Obama kept blacks broke and angry the entire eight years he was in office.

I don't want to live in a small Bronx apartment. I don't want to have three kids that got to share one room.

Nobody wants to admit it, but they send the worst teachers to The Bronx.

I was 5 when I got the speech about how I would have to work harder and longer than everyone else because I was brown.

Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall.

What we shouldn't be doing is borrowing money to give benefits to the most fortunate, to put the burden and pull the rug out of those who struggle the most.