Quotes About Inequality

The best football players in the world still earn very little money compared to people who really earn money.

You don't meet many comics who came from rich families or were captain of the football team and had a nice car.

A footballer in three weeks earns what a dancer makes in a year.

Who gets the risks? The risks are given to the consumer, the unsuspecting consumer and the poor work force. And who gets the benefits? The benefits are only for the corporations, for the money makers.

Our economy is failing far too many - forcing parents to use foodbanks to feed their children, demonising migrants and condemning all of us to climate breakdown.

In America, the top 1 percent led the country into war and economic devastation, leaving the less fortunate to fight for one and pay for both.

The best way to earn a fortune in America is to already have one.

The aggregation of large fortunes is not at all a thing to be regretted.

The U.S. was founded as a white supremacist nation; that's just what it is.

When our founding fathers drafted the Constitution and Bill of Rights, black people weren't even considered human.

Eviction riots erupted during the Depression, though the number of poor families who faced eviction each year was a fraction of what it is today.

In L.A., there's a considerably different climate. It's more misogynistic, frankly.

My mother worked as a maid, cleaning the fraternity dorm of the local college.

It took my parents years to save up for 'luxuries' like a fridge or a television, and we were always among the last in the street to get them.

Poverty took me from being the girl who was always the lead in the school play, to a woman who can't open her own front door.

With almost no exceptions, art by men is much more expensive than art by women. Even great women artists, like Louise Bourgeois and Lee Krasner, are only fully embraced very late in their career.

I argue that one of the functions of a capitalist state is to defend capitalism from itself, to defend capitalism from the capitalists.

There is a fundamentalist belief by capitalists that capital will save the world, and it just isn't so.

Violence against women is fundamentally about power.

Eviction is fundamentally changing the face of poverty.

It was astonishing that Mark, who was a millionaire at least, and probably a good deal more, should live in such a dingy apartment – it had for its chief decoration the hoofs of several deceased race-winners, mounted as inkstands, as pen-racks, as paper-weights – and afford himself only such a lugubrious breakfast of fat slabs of ham over which bled pallid eggs.…

Briefly stated, the main argument of this chapter is that protest is also not a matter of free choice; it is not freely available to all groups at all times, and much of the time it is not available to lower-class groups at all.

And, as to her papa, there is nothing so grand in being an Indian officer.

overcrowding and poverty, that defied description, as