Quotes About Inequality

I remember my grandfather believed women were second-class citizens and told my mother that it was a shame she had brains because she was a girl and shouldn't carry on her education.

My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.

We take food for granted, but it isn't a luxury for many people.

I think there's a feeling of - a grassroots feeling of being betrayed by the elites in some way: that the system is working for itself and not for the people at the bottom.

Racism is felt the most definitely in grassroots football.

Today, the news is scandals; that is news, but the many children who don't have food - that's not news. This is grave. We can't rest easy while things are this way.

Countless black citizens in the South couldn't vote. They were second-class citizens from cradle to grave. The discrimination was terrible, brutal.

If you are a senior woman in business, you intuitively know two things: If a white man promotes a woman or a person of color, he gets credit for it. If a woman says great things about a woman, you get dinged for it. Research is clear on this.

The Democratic Party needs to take a stand against corporate greed.

This America has been the country of greed rather than the country of need.

I think greed is a critical problem - the gap between the poor and the rich. The gap between the top 10 percent and the bottom 10 percent.

If a few companies were less greedy, the people at the bottom woud have a lot more.

I was pretty much a warmonger and a pretty greedy guy. I always wanted to make as much money as I possibly could and felt the downtrodden didn't deserve a break.

We Greeks are the blacks of Europe.

What we need is fundamental reform to address the deep social and economic problems that are gripping people and communities nationwide, particularly the least advantaged.

Economic gross is making us fat.

Grammar schools are about stigmatising children, not on the grounds of their ability, but on their background.

We have never had a society that was truly just. Some groups have always benefited at the expense of others.

Every soul deserves a shot at a Cadillac, but not everyone should be guaranteed a Cadillac.

There's a huge gulf between people who can afford to go to drama school and those who can't.

Whether on guns, race, culture or feminism, there really are two Americas.

The rich can afford to be progressive. Poor people have reason to be afraid of the future.

My God, rich people have the time to praise You if they want to, but the poor people are so busy, accept their work as praise because, my God, they don't have time for everything.

the poor don't have much in the way of money or possessions to steal—so it turns out that the most profitable thing to steal is the whole person.