Quotes About Inequality

But what a horrible world 'society' is.

You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion that has breathed upon this earth, has degraded women. There is not one that has not always made her subject to man.

The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.

Had she been male, she would have been granted a modicum of leeway, but as a woman she was damned as a whore

What she wanted was a kind of greatness that women were not allowed ...

If an American worker saw you driving a Cadillac, he worked to. earn enough to buy one for himself; the English worker, on the other hand, sought to deprive you of yours.

I have never fully understood the whole class business in America, though, because I came from the very bottom of it, and when that happens it never really leaves you. I mean I have never really gotten over it, my beginnings, the poverty, I guess is what I mean.

Americans really did not understand desperation.

concentration of wealth in capitalist countries must inevitably lead to war. That intense concentration—Britain, France, Germany, and the United States together, Lenin noted, controlled nearly 80 percent of the world's financial capital—had reduced the possibility for fresh profits in capitalist countries themselves, including the United States.

Like Charles Murray in The Bell Curve, Wells foresees a future divided between a permanent underclass and a "cognitive elite.

While Egypt gave the world its astronomy and science, China its art, and Mesopotamia its religion, the sole contribution of Nordic civilization was the factory. "As a system of culture," Du Bois announced, white civilization "runs chiefly to marvelous contrivances for enslaving the many, and enriching the few, and murdering both."42

Cuando veo todas esas camisas negras, pardas, rojas o azules, exigiendo que te afilies a esto o aquello, pienso que antes el mundo era de los ricos y ahora va a ser de los resentidos.

a unas calles bajas de esta ciudad donde lo fastuoso de la urbe se entenebrece ante la sordidez de la vida de los más desfavorecidos, donde toda necesidad tiene su ejemplo y todo vicio su triste manifestación.

Traer hijos a este mundo injusto, de esclavos, es sumar a todo una injusticia más.

Qué chingados, ingeniero. De qué revolución me habla. Ésa se disuelve en traiciones y mentiras. Los ricos son los de antes; y los pobres, también. Se lo dice a usté uno que la hizo.

Lo otro fue que hay quien piensa, equivocadamente, que la revolución consiste en que muchos que no saben leer ni escribir se adueñen de las propiedades de los pocos que sí saben leer y escribir.

Hay zonas pobladas y hay desiertos. Hay países industrializados y países en las más atrasadas etapas de la vida económica. Hay naciones que nadan en la fantasía de la riqueza petrolera y naciones cubiertas por la oscura sombra del hambre. Y hay la pavorosa alternativa entre el hormiguero despiadadamente desorganizado y el hormiguero despiadadamente organizado.

My neighbors ask me what the u.s. is like, and they accuse me of lying when i tell them about the hunger and cold and people sleeping in the streets. They refuse to believe me. How can that be in such a rich country?

Any Black person in amerika, if they are honest with themselves, have got to come to the conclusion that they don't know what it feels like to be free. We aren't free politically, economically, or socially. We have very little power over what happens in our lives. In fact, a Black person in amerika isn't even free to walk down the street. Walk down the wrong street, in the wrong neighborhood at night, and you know what happens.

The panel was selected from the voting rolls, and, since candidates running for office seldom represent the interests of Black and poor people, Blacks and the poor don't vote. But failing to vote means they don't sit on juries.

They refused to let him examine me unless a white doctor, hired by the state, was present, and for the report to the judge, the white doctor had to examine me.

Prisons are a profitable business. They are a way of legally perpetuating slavery.

History has shown me that as long as some white middle-class people can live high on the hog, take vacations to Europe, send their children to private schools, and reap the benefits of their white skin privileges, then they are "liberals." But when times get hard and money gets tight, they pull off that liberal mask and you think you're talking to Adolf Hitler. They feel sorry for the so-called underprivileged just as long as they can maintain their own privileges.

Anytime you're talking about a ladder, you're talking about a top and a bottom, an upper class and a lower class, a rich class and a poor class. As long as you've got a system with a top and a bottom, Black people are always going to wind up at the bottom, because we are the easiest to discriminate against. That's why i couldn't see fighting within the system.