Quotes About Inequality

I found when I followed the driveway around to the back that behind its imposing front it was just another tract house, as if the architect had tried to combine a southern plantation mansion with the slave quarters.

On the other side of the tracks - the tracks were there - the business section wore its old Spanish facades like icing on a stale cake.

had chewed and swallowed it, he said: "I don't generally let the language flow around here. People, the richer they get, the more they dislike to hear a Negro express himself in well-chosen words. I guess they feel there's no point in being rich unless you can feel superior to somebody. I study English on the college level, but if I talked that way I'd lose my job. People are very sensitive.

Luxury... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.

When people with money thief and build big house with the money nobody can touch them; when poor people thief a pound of beef people throw their hands in the air and shout for he to go to prison.

To make inexpensive guns impossible to get is to say that you're putting a money test on getting a gun. It's racism in its worst form.

Ya en esto se puede rastrear una división de clases, entre los que tienen algo que perder y los que nunca han tenido ni tendrán intención de poseer

In J. H. Plumb's words, in Georgian society, 'without protection, the poor and the weak and the sick went under; the rich and the strong prospered'.

The State is inherently authoritarian. It represents the interests of the rich against the poor. It is run by representatives—self-selected and sharing a similar ideology—ratified by the increasingly diminishing percentage of the population that bothers to vote.

La maldición del vientre de las pobres: la fecundidad.

Economic forces, after all, are invisible but for the effect they have on our physical form: where we live, what we eat, what we wear, how we dance.

In 1994 the median net worth of whites was $94,500, compared with $19,000 for people of color. By 2005 white median income increased 48% (to $140,500), compared with nonwhite median income, which increased only 31% (to $24,900).

In 1980 the differential between the richest and poorest country in the world was 5:1 as measured by gross national product (GNP). In 2001 the differential between the richest and the poorest country in the world was 390:1 as measured by GNP.

Its supporters recognised that a social equalising of human beings , despite the loveliest of theoretical assumptions, is not possible so long as people are separated into classes on the basis of their owning or not owning property, classes whose mere existence excludes in advance any thought of a genuine community.

Medical statistics will be our standard of measurement: we will weigh life for life and see where the dead lie thicker, among the workers or among the privileged.

The flanneled fools at the wicket or the muddied oafs at the goals.

Society must increasingly become polarized between a shrinking capitalist class and a massive proletariat that suffers worsening misery. A crisis point will arrive when this cannot continue and revolution must occur.

Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Happy the cicadas, for they have voiceless wives!' To which I would respond by saying: 'Pity the female cicadas, for they have singing husbands!

As they say in Washington, laws are for the little people.

Agreement between those of unequal power is inherently suspect. (page 102)

Under capitalism, man oppresses man. But under socialism, it's the other way around.

The rich would have to eat money if the poor did not provide food.

The crimes men commit against women aren't done to women as random individuals; they're done because women belong to a subordinate class and they're done to keep women a subordinate class. The