Quotes About Inequality

It's okay for the President to start a war in Iraq, but it's not okay for me to talk about what I see around me in the ghetto.

We want to make everybody mad enough to look at the ghetto right in their own state, not just to look at the middle-class and the rich areas.

Like other elements of childhood for the precociously gifted - private or home schooling, overstructured activity, and proto-professional training - edutainment products are part of a system that divides children into haves and have-lesses.

Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.

After years of globalisation, disaffected populations have lost confidence that the system is fair.

It's a hard sport. You don't come from a rich family wanting to be a boxer. Rich kids get hit in the face, they go home. Poor kids come back. They see boxing as a way out.

When golf used to be a rich man's sport, if you were poor you could not step foot on a course.

The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.

You're always one of the only girls, because there are so many male writers, and there are not enough good parts for women.

If work was a good thing, the rich would have it all and not let you do it.

it was worth half-cent to kill a nigger, and a half-cent to bury one.

Genealogical trees do not flourish among slaves.

Is it possible for the human mind to conceive of a more horrible state of society?

As I writhed under it, I would at times feel that learning to read had been a curse rather than a blessing. It had given me a view of my wretched condition, without the remedy. It opened my eyes to the horrible pit, but to no ladder upon which to get out. In moments of agony, I envied my fellow-slaves for their stupidity.

They seemed to think that the greatness of their masters was transferable to themselves. It was considered as being bad enough to be a slave; but to be a poor man's slave was deemed a disgrace indeed!

A want of information concerning my own was a source of unhappiness to me even during childhood. The white children could tell their ages. I could not tell why I ought to be deprived of the same privilege.

Behold your hard hands and your strong frames, your masters and mistresses have soft hands and delicate constitutions, and white skins; whence this difference; 'it is the Lord's doings and marvellous in our eyes.

You degrade us, and then ask why we are degraded—you shut our mouths, and then ask why we don't speak—you close your colleges and seminaries against us, and then ask us why we don't know more!

The familiarity of superiors embitters one, because it may not be returned.

Nobody is more inferior than those who insist on being equal .

hunger is not just an economic problem. It is a moral and spiritual problem.

They could hang around all day and nobody paid them any mind because society has trained itself not to see the poor and the destitute. That way, we don't have to think about how the richest society on earth allows so many of its citizens to live in the streets like stray dogs.

Ya lo verán, decía, se volverán a repartir todo entre los curas, los gringos y los ricos, y nada para los pobres... porque éstos estarán siempre tan jodidos que el día en que la mierda tenga algún valor los pobres nacerán sin culo.

Mais notre patriotisme, ça consiste en plus gros profits pour ceux qui restent en arrière que pour ceux qui vont se faire casser la gueule au front.