Quotes About Inequality

African American women, and moms in particular, are evicted at disproportionately high rates.

Families who get evicted tend to live in worse housing than they did before, and they live in neighborhoods with higher poverty rates and higher crime rates than they did before.

Rates of black poverty have decreased. Black teen-pregnancy rates are at record lows - and the gap between black and white teen-pregnancy rates has shrunk significantly. But such progress rests on a shaky foundation, and fault lines are everywhere.

Even very low-income communities are seeing rising rates of obesity, diabetes, cancer, and heart disease as a result. But many countries lack the tax revenue and medical infrastructure to treat such conditions, leading to a burgeoning global-health crisis.

People don't like other poor people, and rather than blame the people that make you all poor, you blame each other.

If we use goods made from raw materials that are obtained from a poor country without the proceeds being used to benefit the people of that country, we become complicit in a particularly iniquitous form of grand larceny.

I maintain that the period during the first half of the 1990s, the period in which rising inequality reached its peak, was a period in which we came very, very close to a demagogic immobilization of racism in this society.

Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.

I did not learn the flaws of the criminal-justice system in law school or college or by reading about it. I grew up knowing the flaws and how it was disproportionately impacting the black community. It's not academic for me.

It seems to me that most people are interested in reading about characters who are richer than they are.

The Reagan program is not working because the program is not fair - and, just as important, because the people themselves know it is not fair.

Some of the most destructive forms of racism - like being denied a home loan or being passed on for a job where you are the most qualified candidate - are hard to measure in real time.

Growing up on our estate, we were all different colours, but we were all really poor. I never really realised that black was a problem for some people.

To me, it felt that if I give up my name, I am also sending a message to my children, saying my name was not important enough as your father's; I am not as important as your father. That is a message we are passing down generation after generation without realising.

For if enough people were really convinced that growth should be halted, and if they acted on that conviction, then billions of others might be deprived of any realistic hope of gaining the opportunities now enjoyed by the more fortunate.

The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.

It is clear that the economy has not gotten better for everyone.

It has always seemed to me that those who are without power, who have to create their own in a makeshifit way, know more about life than those who govern.

The economy is not governed with the bottom half in mind.

I just think it's great to show a gown that's $8,000 and a shoe that's, like, $25 - but still look fabulous together.

The reason why the Democratic Party fell from grace is because they become nothing more than elitist. That was it. Goldman Sachs - that's who they were.

Education is supposed to be our great equalizer, but when only half of low-income students are enrolling in college and only three tenths are graduating, you have to figure some of our children are getting a greater equalizer than others.

The evidence shows that grammar schools overwhelmingly benefit those from more affluent backgrounds.

My father didn't know his last name. My father got his last name from his grandfather, and his grandfather got it from his grandfather who got it from the slavemaster.