Quotes About Inequality

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.

I believe in white supremacy until the blacks are educated to a point of responsibility.

One great reason why the rich in general have so little sympathy for the poor is because they so seldom visit them. Hence it is that one part of the world does not know what the other suffers. Many of them do not know, because they do not care to know: they keep out of the way of knowing it – and then plead their voluntary ignorance as an excuse for their hardness of heart.

È per noi che esiste l'università, per i diseredati del mondo. Non per gli studenti, non per la disinteressata ricerca della conoscenza, né per le altre ragioni che sentite dire. Quelle sono solo una copertura, come quei pochi individui normali, idonei al mondo, che di tanto in tanto accogliamo tra noi. Ma è tutto fumo negli occhi.

pensaba en el amor y en sus espantosas desigualdades. Siempre hay alguien que ofrece la mejilla y otro que la besa.

Today the game is rigged—rigged to work for those who have money and power. Big corporations hire armies of lobbyists to get billion-dollar loopholes into the tax system and persuade their friends in Congress to support laws that keep the playing field tilted in their favor. Meanwhile, hardworking families are told that they'll just have to live with smaller dreams for their children.

Equality comes in different forms, and it is a lot harder being a girl in Ethiopia than it was in Pennsylvania.

The American Dream, coupled with government subsidies of utilities and cheap consumer goods courtesy of slave labour somewhere else, has kept the poor huddled masses from rising up.

I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it.

Choice has always been a privilege of those who could afford to pay for it.

I hate how box-office failures are blamed on an actress, yet I don't see a box-office failure blamed on men.

Nasceu com boceta? Vai ser enganada. Traída, humilhada.

Was it a millionaire who said "imagine no possessions?" A poor little schoolboy who said "we don't need no lessons?

I once heard [Gerald] Feinberg suggest that many of Manhattan's 1970s social problems could be solved by forbidding anyone who earned less than, say, $10,000 per year to live there. It had not occurred to him, apparently, that this excluded many of the people who worked at the university.

Injustice constitutes the essence of social life.

We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.

Los animales -que viven todos de sus propios esfuerzos- no conocen la miseria, pues ignoran la jerarquía y la explotación. Este fenómeno aparece sólo con el hombre, el único animal que ha esclavizado a sus semejantes; solamente el ser humano es capaz de tanto desprecio de sí mismo.

Death had to take her little by little, bit by bit, dragging her along to the bitter end of the miserable existence she'd made for herself. They never even knew what she did die of. Some spoke of a chill. But the truth was that she died from poverty, from the filth and the weariness of her wretched life.

Talvolta erano gli stessi esponenti dell'aristocrazia che sobillavano le folle contro l'assolutismo monarchico per difendere o recuperare i loro privilegi, ostentati come garanzia di libertà contro il dispotismo del re. L'aristocrazia si serviva della protesta dei poveri per rinsaldare il proprio predominio sulle classi inferiori. Contadini

God gave a Loaf to every Bird—But just a Crumb—to Me—

As Nic said, second-hand clothes were like day drinking, government handouts and having a lawyer: classy if you're rich, proof you're trash if you're poor.

The working classes contribute almost nothing to our corporate public opinion, and therefore, the fact of their want of influence in Parliament does not impair the coincidence of Parliament with public opinion. They are left out in the representation, and also in the thing represented.

Nothing, in fact, is as universal or as ancient as the iniquitous and absurd.