Quotes About Inequality

I remember in a film of mine, though both my co-star and I were newcomers, he got far better paid than me. I was shocked and appalled. I actually asked him what different are you doing that you are getting better paid!

There's always somebody who is paid too much, and taxed too little - and it's always somebody else.

In Pakistan, the right to go to school is not a given. In the more rural areas, a girl is born, married off as early as 9 years old, and basically lives life under the control of men.

I backpacked around the world and went to places like Mexico City and Pakistan, where I'm like, 'Oh. Things aren't quite as good.'

The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately impacted women and communities of color across our state.

It shouldn't take a pandemic for us to take notice that millions of people can't afford a single sick day.

Historians and scholars have access to every issue of every newspaper and journal written during the civil rights struggle of the 1960s but can access only a comparative handful of papers covering the election of Barack Obama.

There are more than 200,000 people in Maputo who are nothing more than parasites.

As a parent, you want to protect your children, but the fact of racism in this country, of inequality, that is still a lesson my children are going to have to learn. I can't protect my kids from that.

Parity is for farmers.

There are people out there with three jobs and small children. Being an actor is a walk in the park compared to working as a cleaner overnight. I'm lucky I'm not plucking chickens.

When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he's saving a parking place.

A parking lot attendant who's a guy makes a lot more money than a child-care attendant who's a woman.

A century after some women first got the vote, we are upping the pressure for change to consign Parliament's legacy of inequality in the past.

You know what, man, that's part and parcel of being a black person in this country: everything's harder. It just is.

If your kid doesn't have broadband access, that's a real disadvantage for participating in modern education.

Capitalism in and of itself is based on the monetising of human labour, and the first evidence of that is slavery. And that has never changed. We are all participating in that.

I don't think we live in a particularly equal society.

A party committed to defending the economic interests of rich elites could never win by saying so.

The latitude and longitudinal lines of where you are born determine your opportunity in life, and it's not equal. We may have been created equal, but we're not born equal. It's a lot to do with luck and you have to pass that on.

I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.

White Americans believe we've made more progress since the end of slavery in 1865 than do black Americans for whom '12 Years a Slave' documents a collective memory, passed down in the genes and by the lore of generations.

The evil of the present system is therefore not that the "surplus-value" of production goes to the capitalist, as Rodbertus and Marx said, thus narrowing the Socialist conception and the general view of the capitalist system; the surplus-value itself is but a consequence of deeper causes. The evil lies in the possibility of a surplus-value existing, instead of a simple surplus not consumed by each generation

I was a second class citizen before the zombies and I'm a second class citizen now.