Quotes About Inequality

One thing's sure and nothing surer. The rich get richer and the poor get- children

You men notice so little, Pemberton. Physical strength is your gender's sole advantage.

Dare we care at all about current fashions if that means reducing our ability to help hungry neighbors? How many more luxuries should we buy for ourselves and our children when others are dying for lack of bread?

The richest 1 percent of Americans own more wealth than the bottom 80 percent.177

There are many examples of how Trump doesn't truly care for the hurting and oppressed, only for the wealthy and the white.

God's Word teaches a very hard, disturbing truth. Those who neglect the poor and the oppressed are really not God's people at all—no matter how frequently they practice their religious rituals nor how orthodox are their creeds and confessions.

What an ironic tragedy that an affluent, "Christian" minority in the world continues to hoard its wealth while hundreds of millions of people hover on the edge of starvation!

It is a sinful abomination for one part of the world's Christians to grow richer year by year while our brothers and sisters ache and suffer for lack of minimal health care, minimal education, and even—in some cases—enough food to escape starvation.

God thundered again and again through the prophets that worship in the context of mistreatment of the poor and disadvantaged is an outrage.

Great economic inequality inevitably produces injustice in a fallen world; therefore Christians must oppose it.

It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available.

What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.

Most tax revisions didn't improve the system, they made it more like Washington itself complicated, unfair, cluttered with gobbledygook and loopholes designed for those with the power and influence to hire high-priced legal and tax advisers.

Chinese men were seen as sensuous creatures, especially interested in white women. A writer for the New York Times reported that he noticed "a handsome but squalidly dressed young white girl" in an opium den and inquired about her. The owner replied: "Oh, hard time in New York. Young girl hungry. Plenty come here. Chinaman always have something to eat, and he like young white girl. He! He!

In 1852, of the 11,794 Chinese in California, only seven were women.

For the most part, America's criminal justice system isn't deliberately cruel. It's just indifferent to the ways in which it breaks human beings. Few police officers want to contribute to mass incarceration or aid in the destruction of poor minority communities. But the absurdities and injustices are inherent in the system. Often, by the time the police get involved, the only available choices are bad ones.

I want to burden the conscience of the affluent with all the suffering and all the hidden, bitter tears.

Individual patriarchs may indeed wriggle off the charge of woman-hating; the key to the gross inflictions laid on women in their names lies in the nature of the system itself. For a monotheism is not merely a religion—it is a relation of power. Any "One God" idea has a built-in notion of primacy and supremacy; that One God is god above all others and his adherents are supreme over all nonbelievers.

Thomas Wazhashk: I am not sure what study the information about our advancement, financially speaking, was based on. But I will tell you it was faulty. Most of our people live on dirt floors, no electricity, no plumbing. I haul my own water like most Indians in this room. I consider myself advanced only because I read and write. Should I not be an Indian person because I read and write?

Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offense.

Les gens riches à Paris demeurent ensemble, leurs quartiers, en bloc, forment une tranche de gâteau urbain dont la pointe vient toucher au Louvre, cependant que le rebord rebondi s'arrête aux arbres entre le Pont d'Auteuil et la Porte des Ternes. Voilà. C'est le bon morceau. Tout le reste n'est que peine et fumier.

Perdemos a maior parte de nossa juventude por conta das inabilidades. Saltava aos olhos que ela ia me abandonar, minha bem-amada, de vez e em breve. Eu ainda não havia aprendido que existem duas humanidades muito diferentes, a dos ricos e a dos pobres. Precisei, como tantos outros, de vinte anos e da guerra para aprender a me manter na minha categoria, para perguntar o preço das coisas e dos seres antes de tocá-los, e em especial antes de desejá-los.

Paris'te varl?kl?lar hep bir arada yaÅŸarlar, oturduklar? semtler, blok halinde, sivri ucu Louvres'e kadar uzanan, yar?m ay ÅŸeklindeki kenar? ise Pont d'Auteuil ile Porte des Ternes aras?ndaki aÄŸaçlar?n hizas?nda duran bir kentsel pasta dilimi oluÅŸturur. Ä°ÅŸte. Buras?, kentin lezzetli dilimidir. Gerisi sadece azapla tezektir.

Louis XIV lui au moins, qu'on se souvienne, s'en foutait à tout rompre du bon peuple. Quant à Louis XV, du même. Il s'en barbouillait le pourtour anal.