Quotes About Inequality

Many people have beautiful homes and beautiful things, but other people haven't ever seen them. So why have them?

My mother went to work in the homes of white folk, usually living in and looking after their children. The money was small.

We must stop tax giveaways to rich corporations and developers while our schools are crumbling and people are losing their homes.

Anyone who has grown up in Delhi knows it's horrible.

We know that segregation is evil. We know that the sickest children should not go to the worst hospitals.

For far too long the House of Commons has been run as little more than a private club by and for gentleman amateurs.

Chasing new runway capacity to cater to ever more frequent leisure flights by Britain's wealthiest households isn't just iniquitous - it's bad economic policy.

My mom worked as a housekeeper, and I saw her relationship with her employers - how on the one hand she spent more time with these women than with a lot of her friends, and how in certain ways they were friends. But then they weren't.

You go to a lot of cities they've got these great big footballer's houses. There's not many in Stoke-on-Trent.

When you look at the wealth gap - the racial wealth gap - all of that is very much connected to housing.

The high cost of housing is crushing poor families and sending them to a state of desperation.

We have failed to fully appreciate how deeply housing is implicated in the creation of poverty.

We're willing to spend countless dollars putting people who need help in cages, and then when they get out we say you can't have a job, and you can't have housing, and because you don't have either, we're going to take your kids, too.

Gentrification and housing shortages are complex issues.

I couldn't believe I was homeless and working in Harrods. How many people must be going through this in London?

The postcode lottery means that the level of care you get differs hugely around the country, and the health service simply cannot meet every demand that is put upon it.

The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write.

Capitalism is the worst friend of humanity.

Every hour I spent on manual work, every hour I was humiliated in England or degraded has helped me because that's the same way other people feel in the townships here. People are still walking long distances and are working long hours.

Not everyone can afford to plunk down hundreds, or even thousands, of dollars on a laptop.

There is no humiliation more abusive than hunger.

Often when we talk about food and food policy, it is thinking about hunger and food access through food pantries and food banks, all of which are extremely important.

Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.

One in four kids in the U.S. faces hunger.