Quotes About Inequality

For the most part, congressional Republicans represent people who are whiter, older and richer than most Americans, and our creaky old political system gives those Americans disproportionate influence over public policy.

What the Republicans have said is rather than touch one hair on the heads of the wealthiest people in our country, people who make over $1 million a year, they're saying, 'Seniors should pay $6,000 more dollars a year. But please don't let us ask the wealthiest to do their fair share.'

Sometimes Republicans engage in number-crunching analysis that doesn't always take the neediest into account.

The Republicans do not have feeling for people who are in bad shape.

The idea that because you're born in Haiti you could die having a child. The idea that because you're born in you know Malawi your children may go to bed hungry. We want to take some of the chance out of that.

I don't want to see that two-tier Senegal, that two-tier Africa, when you have those at the top and those at the bottom, people who are hungry, people who do not have enough to eat.

Too many children and adults go hungry every day.

In a lot of First Nations and different rural communities, kids go to school hungry.

You know that big government doesn't hurt big corporations. They've got the best lawyers and accountants in the world. You know who gets destroyed by big government? It's the little guys.

Capitalism has only hurt Latin America.

For homeless and formerly homeless people, losing their ID and then having to apply for and afford new ID is insurmountably difficult.

If Trump actually wants to help those who have been left behind, he must go beyond the ideological battles of the past.

All too easily I have had people dismiss food poverty as an affliction of the workless and idle, insinuating that it is a way of life only for those who choose it. Yet the reality couldn't be more different.

I would be ignorant to say colorism doesn't exist; it's gross and disgusting.

George W. Bush has helped those who have most, hurt those who have least and ignored everyone in between.

We still have an underclass in this country who are constantly ignored and vilified.

Throughout my life, I always remember that consideration of people who were less fortunate than we. We lived in an atmosphere of awareness, and we certainly did not live a life whereby we ignored, or felt that we could ignore, that which was in evidence around us.

'Death at an Early Age' was about racial segregation in Boston. 'Illiterate America' was about grownups who can't read. 'Rachel and Her Children' was about people who were homeless in the middle of Manhattan.

If beggars do not hate the rest of us, they are even more abject than I had imagined.

Only if you were lucky to be born in the right class, the one Donald Trump was born in, then of course you have a beautiful view of the world. You find that everybody else is an imbecile, because he doesn't think like you, he doesn't dress like you, he doesn't have the same girl as you, etc. But I call that ignorance.

Famines are political. We all know that the immediate response to a famine must be food, aid, and shelter, but we should also look hard at what else can be done earlier on. It is not the lack of food but the fact that some people cannot get access to the food that causes the famine.

As a young black immigrant at an inner-city school, I saw how poverty of ambition left many from disadvantaged backgrounds on the scrap-heap.

Black and brown communities are significantly and disproportionately impacted by deficiencies in our criminal justice system.

Racism is very characteristic of imperialism. Racism is very characteristic of capitalism.