Quotes About Inequality

Life has very little even ground.

Life ain't fair. It ain't. Not never.

Architecture does not change anything. It's always on the side of the wealthy. The important thing is to believe that it can make life better.

Anyone who's been poor and gets rich is stalked by guilt and fear. Guilt because you know it isn't fair, that life hasn't changed for everyone

If you're poor, potato chips are the food of life for you. It's the caviar.

The reason that the World Trade Center got hit is because there are a lot of people living in abject poverty out there who don't have any hope for a better life.

Life isn't fair. In never was and never will be.

The life prospects of an American are more dependent on the income and education of his parents than in any of the other advanced industrial countries.

If you're a black kid, you're going to have hell in your life.

Everyone knows how we white people feel, the glorified Mammy figure who dedicates her whole life to a white family. Margaret Mitchell covered that. But no one ever asked Mammy how she felt about it.

Nobody ever said life was fair.

I often think how unfairly life's good fortune is sometimes distributed.

Why is life so difficult for some people and not for others? Why do some people have to struggle so much?

I was a girl in a land where rifles are fired in celebration of a son, while daughters are hidden away behind a curtain, their role in life simply to prepare food and give birth to children.

As an actress for most of my life, I am profoundly familiar with poverty.

We are called upon to help the discouraged beggars in life's marketplace. But one day we must come to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.

Too much is made for us; too much is given to us - even those of us who are underprivileged. The poverty is given to us. The difficulties are given to us.

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.

The celestial hypothesis is sheer propaganda formulated by the haves to delude the havenots.

But England's degeneration had also allegedly occurred because its modern financial system had produced unimaginable riches for the few and deepening poverty for the many, widening the gap between rich and poor, and cursing the land with a malignant tyranny that ate away at the liberties once enjoyed by Englishmen.

Some folks are born made to wave the flag;Ooh, they're red, white, and blue.And when the band plays "Hail to the Chief,"They point the cannon at you.It ain't me, it ain't me—I ain't no senator's son.It ain't me, it ain't me—I ain't no fortunate one.

Who are these people that spend that much for performing clowns and $1,000 for toy sailboats? What kinda work they do and how they live and how come we ain't in on it?

I could see that the Wasichus did not care for each other the way our people did before the nation's hoop was broken. They would take everything from each other if they could, and so there were some who had more of everything than they could use, while crowds of people had nothing at all and maybe were starving. They had forgotten that the earth was their mother.10 This

And, just as in the Roman Empire the rich had found ways of avoiding paying taxes, so also now the main burden fell upon the mass of the population. Thus, in Commynes's words, 'it was pitiful to see and learn about the poverty of the people.