Quotes About Inequality

One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.

My dad was a labour lawyer, and the ideas that I grew up with - bad management, bad capitalism, robber barons - when I applied this to my own life, I saw that we are all on both sides of the coin.

The British hamburger thus symbolised, with savage neatness, the country's failure to provide its ordinary people with food which did anything more for them than sustain life.

The examined life has always been pretty well confined to a privileged class.

Life is rough for everyone....Life isn't always fair. Whatever it is that hits the fan, its never evenly distributed - some always tend to get more of it than others.

Envy is the central fact of American life.

The word gap leads to an achievement gap and has life-long consequences

In life there exist two classes: first class and no class.

Unfortunately in life, justice is not always achieved.

Clearly, America has no shortage of metaphorical opportunities for the poor.

Hip-hop is about tearing down the system to better it, tearing down the system to better themselves. No matter how flimsy it might seem, they always wanted the finer things in life.

In its present terms, the global system values property over human life.

We know the legislation that passed the House. It was the worst piece of legislation frankly against working class people that I can remember in my political life in the Congress.

Lyndon Johnson believed the poor deserved a better life than the economy was providing them. He thought private power and greed had to be checked by a vibrant democracy.

Cities don't make people poor; they attract poor people. The flow of less advantaged people into cities from Rio to Rotterdam demonstrates urban strength, not weakness.

She herself feels unequal to the world's sufferings and fears that by narrowing her focus on the world to make it manageable, she has trivialized it.

God is so cruel," she murmured reflectively, as though answering him. "Yes," he admitted, from the vantage point of going blind. "Though maybe people are kinder if He made them that way." "You've run with a different crowd. Rich people are nicer to rich people." "Sure. Yes. That's why I've washed up here. Rich people couldn't have been nicer to me.

Cities don't make people poor; they attract poor people.

Today, the US median income is still below where it was at the beginning of this century.

History tells us that inequality soars when societies develop.

According to one Harvard study, more students attended America's elite universities from the top 1 per cent of income backgrounds than from the bottom 60 per cent.

In 1970 only about one in seven American families lived in neighbourhoods that were unambiguously 'affluent' or 'poor'.40 By 2007 that number had risen to almost one in three.

Chicago's success is no longer symbiotic with its rural neighbours. It comes at their expense.

For all the emphasis we place on our multicultural cities, they epitomise our oligarchic reality.