Quotes About Inequality

Schooling after the second grade plays only a minor role in creating or reducing gaps.

Schools are the single largest lever of mobility in this country. When we commit to creating and enforcing laws that acknowledge the injustice of the past, we open up the possibility of using schools as a means of reducing inequality.

Investing in living-wage jobs and reducing the inequities between local school districts would give young people more, not less, incentive to postpone childbearing and more possibilities for independence.

Between 2007 and 2010, the average white family experienced an 11% reduction in wealth, but the average black family lost 31% of its wealth. The average Hispanic family lost 44.7%.

Defund the police does not mean abolish the police. It means a dramatic reduction in the number of police in our poor communities and particularly our poor Black and Brown communities.

America has seen enough of a handful of people growing rich at the cost of our nation descending into economic crisis.

Rich folks always talk hard times.

It is definitely true that adversity and hardship are not evenly distributed.

You grow up in America and you're told from day one, 'This is the land of opportunity.' That everybody has an equal chance to make it in this country. And then you look at places like Harlem, and you say, 'That is absolutely a lie.'

We can't have Harlem become one borough for the rich.

Globalisation, for me, seems to be not first-order harm, and I find it very hard not to think about the billion people who have been dragged out of poverty as a result.

How you look has become ridiculously disproportionate to what you do. Critics are more harsh on female presenters.

Capitalism can't deliver decent health care.

I believe in free education, free healthcare. But I do not believe in equality.

No one should be denied healthcare in America because of where they live.

No matter how rich you are, you can't get healthy air.

The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.

In any film, there are 10 male roles for 1 female role, especially in the action films. They're heavy with the guys.

I critique market-based medicine not because I haven't seen its heights but because I've seen its depths.

Anybody who runs for president in this country and comes out as strong as the Democrats were about helping the poor folks and black folks is not going to win.

I hold with Henry George, that at the back of every great social evil will be found a great political wrong.

Capitalism in Russia has spawned far more Al Capones than Henry Fords.

The sexism in Hollywood is not particularly overt - because the system is good at hiding it.

Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.