Quotes About Inequality

Proverbs 22:7: "The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is slave to the lender

The haves and have-nots can often be traced back to the dids and did-nots. D. O. FLYNN

The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is slave to the lender" (NIV).

no matter how much we want to believe that our world is just and fair, it isn't. At least in some cases, the only way to have justice is to leave fairness at the door on the way in.

This guy could sell off half his classic car collection and secure the mortgages for at least a hundred families facing eviction because they can no longer afford the bills. ?But such is life, and who can blame James Wilson for playing by its rules? Even if they've always been stacked in his favor.

When a poor man gives something, that is a sacrifice indeed. When a rich man gives something, it hardly rises to the same level.

To a large extent, that's the way empires work. Internal class war is a significant element of empire.

Poverty breeds prejudice, hatreds, discontent,

Tattnall from 1937 to 1941 shows no white bodies were donated for cadaver use during those five years while fifty-three black corpses were taken. Racial discrimination seemed to have no end, even after death.

Rewards and penalties are totally random; knaves thrive and saints go hungry.

Whatever white people do not know about Negroes reveals, precisely and inexorably, what they do not know about themselves.

Racism is a word which describes one of the results--perhaps the principal result--of our estrangement from our beginnings, from the universal source.

Education is indoctrination if you're white — subjugation if you're black.

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

The vice of capitalism is that it stands for the unequal sharing of blessings; whereas the virtue of socialism is that it stands for the equal sharing of misery.

The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.

We're not all equal, it's simply not true. That isn't science.

Lane, "Economic Consequences of Organized Violence," op. cit.

For better or worse, the societies of the twenty-first century are likely to be more unequal than those we have lived in during the twentieth.

Incomes will become more unequal within jurisdictions and more equal between them.

The sheer challenge of survival in premodern societies always constrained the behavior of the poor.

The most serious and universal problem is the growing chasm between the richest and poorest people on earth. Citizens of the ten wealthiest countries are now seventy-five times richer than those who live in the ten poorest ones, and the separation is increasing every year, not only between nations but also within them.

Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat a better meal than a neighbor, or otherwise to enjoy ease and plenty, while our fellow creatures are suffering and in want.