Quotes About Inequality

There is no such thing as talking about class without there being implications of the racial history of the United States. You just can't do it.

Quite a few plays I have written have an implicit critique of capitalism in that, if you follow it through to its end, what happens to the people who are left behind?

The reality is that life expectancy has not improved for everyone. In fact, in some cases, life expectancy is actually decreasing.

Inaction will always have a disproportionate impact on those who are the most disadvantaged.

The wealth disparity between the lowest and the highest continues to expand, and that's inappropriate.

Just as incarceration has come to define the lives of low-income black men, eviction is defining the lives of low-income black women.

I don't believe in trickle-down economics. I don't think that people who have the most are inclined to share it, generally.

The concentration of U.S. income and wealth in the hands of the very rich is a new development in my lifetime.

Working families spend about 90 percent of their income on consumption - buying stuff. The rich spend less than 45 percent.

The income distribution system constructed in the 20th century has broken down, and it will not come back.

I saw people get fired after their eviction. But when I found that if you get evicted, your chances of losing your job increase by 20 percent, that's when it really hit home for me.

We live in a world in which we're seeing an increasing gap between the haves and the have-nots.

All countries will feel the increasing effects of dangerous climate change and it is those least able to bear it who are already being hurt first and hardest.

Increasingly, Americans don't own America.

Broken Britain isn't just about our indebted economy, it's also about our broken society and broken politics too.

No writer has a right to make that much money. Indeed, without diabolical assistance, no writer can.

We can't deny the existence of caste in India. We have to live with it.

When the poor give to the rich, the devil laughs.

People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it.

infrastructures they're actively not contributing to through tax avoidance and evasion while hypocritically scorning the underclasses as the scourge of society who sponge off the state when they're the ones who are the biggest scroungers on society with no sense of community responsibility other than a very self-aggrandizing, tax-deductible form of fashionable charity they like to call philanthropism!

She realized that knowing someone comes from money isn't the same as witnessing the extent of it in close proximity

she realized that knowing someone comes from money isn't the same as witnessing the extent of it in close proximity

According to the Institute for Policy Studies (Anderson, Collins, Klinger, Pizzigati, 2011) the ratio between a CEO and an average company salary stood at 42 to 1 back in 1980, while it climbed to 263 to 1 and to 325 to 1 in 2009 and 2010 respectively.

No, that's my Christian name. Why? Don't you know sugar is brown first? White folks couldn't stand the fact that something so sweet shared the same color as the people who cut the cane, slopped the hogs and picked the cotton. So they bleached it to resemble them, and now they done gone and fooled everybody, You included," Sugar said with a laugh.