Quotes About Inequality

You know, Saudi Arabia has a lot of poverty also. Regardless about what you hear about the viceroy and people being rich, et cetera.

Immense wealth translates automatically into immense environmental impacts, regardless of the intentions of those who possess it.

I have truly never been honest outside of the home in regards to racism and inequality and what I've been subject to.

Corruption is... the result of a decadent political regime. We are absolutely convinced that this evil is the main cause of social and economic inequality, and also that corruption is to blame for the violence in our country.

The Social Register is a nice address book for some people, but that's about it.

I have real good parents. They poor. They have regular, poor jobs and what not. They real good people and what not; I was just raised in a bad society.

Inequality reigns in horrifying ways, and not everyone can even read, but the world of media and advertising withholds very little from the imagination of the dispossessed.

What I hear from folks all the time is 'us against them.' It is a core part of what they feel is happening with our government. Investing here, but not there. Listening to some, but not nearly enough. Going into certain neighborhoods, but not others. That divide is something we have to categorically reject.

Liberalism seems to be related to the distance people are from the problem.

The infant mortality rates are insanely high. The obesity epidemic is on the rise. It is all related.

The benefits of globalisation and economic growth are being unevenly distributed and people are acutely aware of their own relative disadvantage.

The poverty line in the U.S., for example, has nothing to do with the poverty line in India. It is a relative poverty line. It is reset from time to time but it is related to U.S. median income, so if I set that to be the absolute poverty line everyone in India would essentially be poor.

It is absolute poverty that you could end, but I think relative poverty is a whole other issue.

Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it.

My mother and father and many of my relatives had been sharecroppers.

Given the relativity concept, poverty cannot be eliminated. Indeed, an economic upturn with a broad improvement in household income does not guarantee a decrease in the size of the poor population, especially when the income growth of households below the poverty line is less promising than the overall.

Huge studio movies are handed over to a man with less experience before they're handed over to a woman with less experience. That's a fact. But I think it's not just about men not hiring women: it's about women not hiring women, too.

While the national highway system connects cities and facilitates economic activity across the nation, it's construction historically has been deeply destructive for many communities, particularly low-income communities and communities of color.

The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes.

There is a respectable body of economic thought that holds that casino gambling is actually economically regressive to a state and a community.

Denying the rights of women and girls is not only wrong in itself; it has a serious social and economic impact that holds us all back.

Hollywood is the definition of sexual discrimination.

The challenges that the homeless face aren't dissimilar to those in developing countries.

In the Britain of 2019, around a third of a million of our fellow citizens are homeless.